The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 88
Now the bear chief of course knew that the boys’ father would seek for his sons when they did not return home, so he sent another of his servants to the hiding-place at the fork of the trail to see what would happen.
Who acts: bear chief, father, chief · What happens: know, seek, not return, send, see, happen · To what, where: another, hiding place · 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 chief, father, chief), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 knew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | compound |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | nmod |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 seek | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boys | det |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 10 boys | case |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seek | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 seek | aux |
| 14 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knew | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 sons | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sons | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seek | obl |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 return | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 return | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 return | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 return | advmod |
| 22 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seek | advcl |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 return | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sent | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 sent | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sent | nsubj |
| 27 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | conj |
| 28 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 sent | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 servants | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 servants | nmod:poss |
| 31 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 another | nmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 place | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 place | det |
| 34 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 place | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 hiding | punct |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sent | obl |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 fork | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fork | det |
| 39 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 place | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 trail | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 trail | det |
| 42 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fork | nmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 see | mark |
| 44 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sent | advcl |
| 45 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 47 happen | nsubj |
| 46 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 happen | aux |
| 47 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 see | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the bear chief of course | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seek | would | the boys's father | for chief's sons | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not return | past · do-support | father | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send | past | chief | another | the hiding place at the fork of the trail | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent another=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | chief not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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