The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 70

At that moment the dogs began to bark loudly, and the bear rushed out of the thicket and set off in the direction of the mountain.

Who acts: dogs, bear · What happens: begin, bark, rush out, set off · To what, where: thicket, direction

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 (dogs, 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dogs	det
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bark	mark
8	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	8 bark	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rushed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rushed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bear	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushed	nsubj
14	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 thicket	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 thicket	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thicket	det
18	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rushed	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 set	cc
20	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rushed	conj
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 set	compound:prt
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 direction	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 direction	det
24	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 mountain	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mountain	det
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 direction	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the dogs			moment		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bark	to-infinitive	the dogs not said here				loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rush out	past	the bear	the thicket				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thicket=Trajectory
4	set off	past	the bear not said here		the direction of the mountain			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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