The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 45

He was much astonished to see them come back alone, and asked what had happened to them.

Who acts: other two, leaves · What happens: be, see, come back, ask, happen · To what, where: leaves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other two, leaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 astonished	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 astonished	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 astonished	advmod
4	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 astonished	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	xcomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 astonished	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happened	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 happened	aux
16	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 asked	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 happened	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	other two = two			astonished property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	other two = two not said here	leaves = leaf			tree rules
3	come back	infinitive	leaves = leaf not said here			alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	other two = two not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	happen	past · perfect			leaves = leaf		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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