The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 71

Without thinking that they had nothing to defend themselves with, should the bear turn and attack them, the boys gave chase.

Who acts: bear, servants, boys · What happens: think, have, defend, turn, attack, give · To what, where: nothing, servants, chase · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bear, servants, boys), 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	Without	without	SCONJ	_	2 thinking	mark
2	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 turn	advcl
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinking	ccomp
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 defend	mark
8	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nothing	acl
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 defend	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	8 defend	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thinking	punct
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 turn	aux
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bear	det
14	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turn	nsubj
15	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 attack	cc
17	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 turn	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 attack	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boys	det
21	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 turn	conj
23	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	the bear not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	servants = servant	nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	defend	to-infinitive	servants = servant not said here	servants = servant	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary
4	turn	should	the bear		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	attack	infinitive	the bear not said here	servants = servant	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	give	past	the boys	chase	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=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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