The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 65

One of them was a long way behind, and when he arrived his brothers inquired what had made him so late.

Who acts: One, cat · What happens: be, arrive, inquire, make · To what, where: long way, brothers, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, cat), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 way	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 way	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 inquired	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 inquired	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 arrived	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 arrived	nsubj
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 inquired	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brothers	nmod:poss
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 arrived	obj
16	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 made	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 inquired	ccomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 late	advmod
22	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 made	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	One of crows	a long way	behind property	tree rules
2	arrive	past	cat	cat's brothers		tree rules
3	inquire speech: other	past	One of crows not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	past · perfect · passive		cat	late property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product

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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