The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 2

Now, as was plain by his being able to change the shape of the two brothers, the bear chief knew a good deal of magic, and he was quite aware that the little boy was following the trail, and he sent a very small but clever bear servant to wait for him in the bushes and to try to tempt him into the mountain.

Who acts: bear chief, chief, little boy, boy · What happens: be, change, know, follow, send, wait · To what, where: shape, good deal, trail, small bear servant, bushes, boy

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 (bear chief, chief, little boy, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 plain	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 plain	mark
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plain	cop
5	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 able	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 able	nmod:poss
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plain	csubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 change	mark
11	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shape	det
13	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 change	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 brothers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brothers	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 brothers	nummod
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shape	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knew	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chief	det
20	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 chief	compound
21	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knew	nsubj
22	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plain	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 deal	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 deal	amod
25	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knew	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 magic	case
27	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 deal	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 aware	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 aware	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 aware	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 aware	cop
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 aware	advmod
33	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 knew	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 following	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 boy	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 boy	amod
37	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 following	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 following	aux
39	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 aware	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 trail	det
41	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 following	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sent	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sent	cc
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sent	nsubj
45	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 plain	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 servant	det
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 small	advmod
48	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 servant	amod
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 clever	cc
50	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 small	conj
51	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 servant	compound
52	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sent	obj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 wait	mark
54	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 sent	advcl
55	for	for	ADP	_	56 him	case
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 wait	obl
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 bushes	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 bushes	det
59	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 wait	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 try	cc
61	to	to	PART	_	62 try	mark
62	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 wait	conj
63	to	to	PART	_	64 tempt	mark
64	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 try	xcomp
65	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 tempt	obj
66	into	into	ADP	_	68 mountain	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 mountain	det
68	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 tempt	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 plain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					now	plain property	tree rules
2	is	gerund						able property	tree rules
3	change	to-infinitive		the shape of the two brothers					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
4	know	past	the bear chief	a good deal of magic					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
5	is	past	chief					aware property	tree rules
6	follow	past · progressive	the little boy	the trail					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme
7	send	past	boy	a small bear servant					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme
8	wait	to-infinitive	boy not said here			the bushes		for boy	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bush=Location
9	try	to-infinitive	boy not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	tempt not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here		boy	the mountain			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
11	deal			magic					nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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