The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 10

As he came along, the bear chief’s sister was looking out of the window, and took pity on this little brother, as she had on the two elder ones, and waited to see what the boy would do, when he found that the bear servant and the dog had already entered the mountain.

Who acts: dog, sister, boy · What happens: come along, look out, take, have, wait, see · To what, where: window, pity, bear servant · 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 (dog, sister, boy), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chief	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chief	compound
8	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sister	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 chief	case
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looking	aux
12	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 came	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 window	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 window	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 window	det
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 took	cc
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
20	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 brother	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 brother	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 brother	amod
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	33 ones	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ones	det
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 ones	nummod
32	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ones	amod
33	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 waited	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 waited	cc
36	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 see	mark
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 waited	advcl
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 do	obj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 boy	det
41	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 do	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 do	aux
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 see	ccomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 found	punct
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 found	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 found	nsubj
47	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 waited	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 entered	mark
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 servant	det
50	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 servant	compound
51	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 entered	nsubj:pass
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 dog	cc
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 dog	det
54	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 servant	conj
55	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 entered	aux
56	already	already	ADV	_	57 entered	advmod
57	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 found	ccomp
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 mountain	det
59	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 entered	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come along	past	dog		along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look out	past · progressive	the bear chief's sister	the window		tree rules
3	take	past	dog not said here	pity	on this little brother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on brother=Destination
4	have	past	sister		on the two elder ones	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	wait	past	dog not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	dog not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	do	would	the boy			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	find	past	boy			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	enter	past · perfect · passive		the bear servant and the dog		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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/10/