The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 77

It was I who told the bear to-day how he was to lure you into my power.

Who acts: It, bear · What happens: be · To what, where: power · 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 (It, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	cop
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bear	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 lure	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lure	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lure	cop
14	to	to	PART	_	15 lure	mark
15	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 lure	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 power	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 power	nmod:poss
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lure	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be speech: assert	past	It				day	tell property	tree rules
2	is not said to happen	past	bear			my power		lure property	tree rules

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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