English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 38

Soon after, the Baron himself came to his brother's castle, and what was his surprise to find that the very thing he had plotted against had come to pass.

Who acts: Baron, brother, thing · What happens: come, be, find, plot, pass · To what, where: castle, surprise, thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baron, brother, thing), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 came	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	1 Soon	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Soon	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Baron	det
5	Baron	Baron	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 Baron	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 castle	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 castle	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 brother	case
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 surprise	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 surprise	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 surprise	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 surprise	cop
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 surprise	nmod:poss
18	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 surprise	csubj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 come	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thing	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 thing	advmod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 come	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 plotted	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 plotted	aux
27	plotted	plot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 thing	acl:relcl
28	against	against	ADP	_	27 plotted	obl
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 find	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 pass	mark
32	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 come	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Baron baron		baron's brother's castle	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
2	is a	past		brother's surprise			tree rules
3	find	to-infinitive					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	plot	past · perfect	brother	the thing not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	come	past · perfect	the thing				tree rules
6	pass	to-infinitive	the thing not said here				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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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