Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 11
But all the while he was wondering and wondering.
Who acts: while · What happens: wonder
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (while), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 wondering | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 while | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wondering | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wondering | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wondering | aux |
| 7 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wondering | cc |
| 9 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wondering | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wondering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | all while | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | all while not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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