The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 17

“Now at last I have found some one who knows the art of lamentation,” exclaimed the bear, quite delighted; and he led the fox back to his cave, and bade him begin his lament over the dead wife who was lying stretched out on her bed of grey moss.

Who acts: bear, one, bade · What happens: find, know, exclaim, lead, begin, stretch out · To what, where: one, art, fox, lament, dead wife, bed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, one, bade), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 found	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Now	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 exclaimed	advcl
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 art	det
13	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knows	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 lamentation	case
15	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 art	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 exclaimed	punct
18	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bear	det
20	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 exclaimed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 delighted	punct
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 delighted	advmod
23	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bear	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 led	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 led	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 led	nsubj
27	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 exclaimed	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fox	det
29	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 led	obj
30	back	back	ADV	_	27 led	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 cave	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 cave	nmod:poss
33	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 back	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bade	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 bade	cc
36	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 begin	nsubj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bade	obj
38	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 led	parataxis
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 lament	nmod:poss
40	lament	lament	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 begin	obj
41	over	over	ADP	_	44 wife	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 wife	det
43	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 wife	amod
44	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 begin	obl
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 stretched	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 stretched	aux:pass
47	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 stretched	aux:pass
48	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 wife	acl:relcl
49	out	out	ADP	_	48 stretched	compound:prt
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 bed	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 bed	nmod:poss
52	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 stretched	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 moss	case
54	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 moss	amod
55	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 bed	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	present · perfect	the bear = bear	some one		now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	know in a quote	present	some one	the art of lamentation				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer art=Stimulus
3	exclaim speech: express	past	the bear					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	lead	past	bear	the fox				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme
5	begin	present	bade	bear's lament			over the dead wife	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lament=Eventuality
6	stretch out	past · passive		the dead wife	bade's bed of grey moss			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
7	lament		bear					nom lament «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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