The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 62
The chief was furious at the number of bears the hunters had killed, and determined that he would find some way of destroying them.
Who acts: chief, bears, way · What happens: be, kill, determine, find, destroy · To what, where: number, hunters, way
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 (chief, bears, way), 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 | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 furious | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 furious | cop |
| 4 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 number | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 furious | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bears | case |
| 9 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 number | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hunters | det |
| 11 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bears | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 determined | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 determined | cc |
| 16 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 furious | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 determined | ccomp |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 destroying | mark |
| 24 | destroying | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 way | acl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 destroying | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 furious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the chief | the number of bears | furious property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | bears not said here | the hunters | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | determine | past | the chief not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | would | chief | some way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 5 | destroy | gerund | some way not said here | hunters = hunter | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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