The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 79
At this moment the second brother came up—for the mountain had been left open on purpose to tempt him also—and cried out breathlessly: “Don’t you see that the bear is lying close to you?
Who acts: second brother, you, bear · What happens: come up, leave, tempt, cry out, do, not see · To what, where: purpose, brother · 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 (second brother, you, 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 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountain | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 came | conj |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 left | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 purpose | case |
| 18 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tempt | mark |
| 20 | tempt | tempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 left | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tempt | obj |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 tempt | advmod |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 cried | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cried | cc |
| 25 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 cried | compound:prt |
| 27 | breathlessly | breathlessly | ADV | _ | 25 cried | advmod |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 Do | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Do | punct |
| 30 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 cried | conj |
| 31 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 see | advmod |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 see | nsubj |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Do | advcl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 lying | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bear | det |
| 36 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 lying | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 lying | aux |
| 38 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 see | ccomp |
| 39 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 lying | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 you | case |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 close | obl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the second brother | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the second brother not said here | purpose | for the mountain; open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: on purpose=Location | |||
| 3 | tempt | to-infinitive | the second brother not said here | brother | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express | past | breathlessly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | lie in a quote | present · progressive | the bear | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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