The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 59

However, that did not prevent him from skinning the bears and cooking them in a way of his own, which he thought very good, and they all ate an excellent supper.

Who acts: that, way, sons · What happens: not prevent, skin, cook, think, eat · To what, where: bear, bears, sons, excellent supper

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 (that, way, sons), 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	However	however	ADV	_	6 prevent	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 prevent	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prevent	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 prevent	advmod
6	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prevent	obj
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 skinning	mark
9	skinning	skin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 prevent	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bears	det
11	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 skinning	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 cooking	cc
13	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 skinning	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cooking	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cooking	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 own	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 own	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 thought	nsubj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 way	acl:relcl
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 good	advmod
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thought	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ate	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ate	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ate	nsubj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 ate	advmod
31	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prevent	advcl
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 supper	det
33	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 supper	amod
34	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ate	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not prevent	past · do-support	that	bear	however property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
2	skin	gerund	that not said here	the bears		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Patient
3	cook	gerund	that not said here	sons = son	in a way of bear's own	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient in way=Instrument
4	think speech: other	past	a way of bear's own		good property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	past	sons = son	a excellent supper		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=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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