The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 1

Not knowing quite what to make of it all, the boy continued on the trail, and went down the right-hand fork till he came to the clump of bushes where the bears used to hide.

Who acts: boy, bears · What happens: not know, make, continue, go down, come, use · To what, where: it, trail, hand fork, clump · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 continued	advcl
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 what	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 make	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knowing	ccomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 it	det
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 continued	nsubj
13	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 trail	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trail	det
16	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 continued	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 continued	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	25 fork	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fork	det
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hand	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 right	punct
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fork	compound
25	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 went	obl
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 clump	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 clump	det
31	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 bushes	case
33	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 clump	nmod
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 used	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bears	det
36	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 used	nsubj
37	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bushes	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 hide	mark
39	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 used	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not know	gerund	the boy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make	to-infinitive		it		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary it=Product
3	continue	past	the boy		the trail	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go down	past	the boy not said here	the hand fork		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient fork=Extent
5	come	past	boy		the clump of bushes	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to clump=Initial_Location
6	use	past	the bears			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	hide	to-infinitive	the bears not said here			vn concealment-16-1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/1/