The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 91

Before he could pick himself up the bear had quietly broken his neck, and, hiding the body under the snow, sat down to see if anyone else would pass that way.

Who acts: chief, anyone · What happens: pick up, break, hide, sit down, see, pass · To what, where: chief, bear, body, snow, way

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 (chief, anyone), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 pick	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pick	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pick	aux
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 broken	advcl
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 pick	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 pick	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broken	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 broken	aux
10	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	11 broken	advmod
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 neck	nmod:poss
13	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 broken	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sat	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 body	det
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hiding	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 snow	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snow	det
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hiding	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hiding	punct
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 broken	parataxis
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 sat	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sat	advcl
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 pass	mark
29	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 pass	nsubj
30	else	else	ADV	_	29 anyone	advmod
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 pass	aux
32	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 see	advcl
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 way	det
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pass	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	could	chief	chief			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	break	past · perfect · passive		the bear		quietly property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient neck=Result
3	hide	gerund		the body	the snow		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Patient under snow=Location
4	sit down	past				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	pass a condition, not said to happen	would	anyone	that way			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory

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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