The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 73
As he ran up, the mountain opened to admit the bear, and the boy, who was close on his heels, rushed in after him, and did not know where he was till he saw bears sitting on every side of him, holding a council.
Who acts: bear, mountain, boy, bears · What happens: run up, open, admit, be, rush in, not know · To what, where: bear, heels, side, council
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, mountain, boy, bears), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 ran | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opened | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | nsubj |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 admit | mark |
| 10 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 opened | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 admit | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 boy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 boy | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 admit | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 close | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 close | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 close | cop |
| 20 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | acl:relcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 heels | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heels | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 close | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rushed | punct |
| 25 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 close | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 rushed | advmod |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rushed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 know | cc |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 know | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 know | advmod |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 opened | conj |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 saw | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 saw | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 saw | cop |
| 37 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 39 saw | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 saw | nsubj |
| 39 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 know | advcl |
| 40 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 saw | obj |
| 41 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 bears | acl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 side | case |
| 43 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 side | det |
| 44 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sitting | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 side | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 holding | punct |
| 48 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 sitting | advcl |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 council | det |
| 50 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 holding | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | bear | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | past | the mountain | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | to-infinitive | the mountain not said here | the bear | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the boy | bear's heels | close property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | rush in | participle | the boy not said here | after bear | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not know | past · do-support | the mountain not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is | past | bear | see property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | sit | gerund | bears not said here | every side of bear | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 9 | hold | gerund | bears not said here | a council | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=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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