The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 49

“Father, here is a bear which we killed; now we can have some dinner.”

Who acts: bear, we · What happens: be, kill, have · To what, where: dinner

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, we), 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	_	2 Father	punct
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 here	vocative
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bear	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 here	nsubj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 killed	nsubj
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 killed	nsubj
10	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bear	acl:relcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 have	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 here	conj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 dinner	det
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a bear			Father vocative; here property	tree rules
2	kill in a quote	past	a bear				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	have in a quote	can	we	some dinner	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient

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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