The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 46
The bear ran across a clearing, and the elder brother managed to place an arrow right in his head.
Who acts: bear, elder brother · What happens: run, manage · To what, where: clearing, arrow, head
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 (bear, elder brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 clearing | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 clearing | det |
| 6 | clearing | clearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 managed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 managed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brother | det |
| 10 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brother | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 managed | nsubj |
| 12 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 place | mark |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 managed | advcl |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 arrow | det |
| 16 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 managed | obj |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 20 head | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 managed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the bear | a clearing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across clearing=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | manage | past | the elder brother | a arrow | bear's head | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme in head=Eventuality |
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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