The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 45

These had not gone far when their dogs scented a bear, and drove him out from the thicket.

Who acts: These, dogs · What happens: not go, scent, drive out · To what, where: bear, dog, thicket

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, dogs), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 scented	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 scented	advmod
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dogs	nmod:poss
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scented	nsubj
9	scented	scent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bear	det
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scented	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drove	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drove	cc
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scented	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drove	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 drove	compound:prt
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 thicket	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thicket	det
19	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drove	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	These				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scent	past	boys's dogs	a bear		far property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bear=Destination
3	drive out	past	boys's dogs not said here	dog	the thicket		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from thicket=Trajectory

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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