The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 58

The next day they were luckier than before, and brought back three bears, on which their father told them that HE had always killed four.

Who acts: sons, father · What happens: be, bring back, tell, kill · To what, where: three bears, sons, bear · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sons, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 luckier	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 luckier	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 luckier	cop
6	luckier	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 before	case
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 luckier	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brought	cc
11	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 luckier	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 brought	advmod
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 bears	nummod
14	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 brought	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 told	obl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brought	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 killed	mark
23	HE	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 killed	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 killed	aux
25	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 killed	advmod
26	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 told	ccomp
27	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 killed	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 luckier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	sons = son			day	lucky property	tree rules
2	bring back	past	sons = son not said here	three bears				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	sons's father		sons = son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	kill	past · perfect · passive		bear			always property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer four=Result

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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