The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 61

And every time a bear was killed his shadow returned to the house of the bear chief, with the marks of his wounds plainly to bee seen by the rest.

Who acts: time, bear · What happens: kill, return, see, shadow, mark, wound · To what, where: bear, bee, wounds

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 (time, bear), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 returned	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	aux:pass
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 time	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 shadow	nmod:poss
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	obj
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 chief	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chief	det
16	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chief	compound
17	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 marks	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 marks	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 marks	det
21	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 returned	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 wounds	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wounds	nmod:poss
24	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 marks	nmod
25	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	27 bee	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 bee	case
27	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wounds	nmod
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 bee	acl
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 rest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rest	det
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seen	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	past · passive	every time not said here	a bear		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer shadow=Result
2	return	past	every time		to the house of the bear chief result; with the marks of bear's wounds to bee	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
3	see	participle		bee not said here	by the rest	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	shadow		bear			nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent
5	mark			bear's wounds to bee		nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	wound		bear		to bee	nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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