The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 16
Soon after her son came in, bringing with him a large bear, which he had killed for supper.
What happens: come in, bring, kill · To what, where: large bear
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 son | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bringing | punct |
| 8 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bringing | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bear | amod |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bringing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 killed | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 killed | aux |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bear | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 supper | case |
| 20 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 killed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | after sight's son | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | a large bear | with son | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | a large bear | for supper | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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