The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 57
“When I was a young man I used to get three bears in one day.”
Who acts: father · What happens: be, use, get · To what, where: young man, three bears
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 (father), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 man | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 man | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 used | nsubj |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | advcl |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 bears | nummod |
| 13 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | nummod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | the father and a bad temper = father | a young man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use in a quote | past | the father and a bad temper = father | a young man not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | the father and a bad temper = father not said here | three bears | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus |
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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