The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 60
Now these bears were the servants of the great bear chief who lived in a high mountain a long way off.
Who acts: bears, great bear chief · What happens: be, live · To what, where: servants, high mountain
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 (bears, great bear chief), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 servants | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 bears | det |
| 3 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 servants | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 servants | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 servants | det |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chief | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 chief | amod |
| 10 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chief | compound |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 servants | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chief | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mountain | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mountain | det |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mountain | amod |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 off | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | off | off | ADV | _ | 13 lived | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 servants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this bears | the servants | now | of the great bear chief | tree rules | ||
| 2 | live | past | the great bear chief | a high mountain | off property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location |
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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