The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 21

As soon as the fire had burnt itself out the little hunter entered what was left of the mountain, and the first thing he saw was his two brothers—half bear, half boy.

Who acts: little hunter, hunter, first thing · What happens: burnt out, enter, leave, see, be · To what, where: fire, first thing, two brothers

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 (little hunter, hunter, first thing), 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	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 burnt	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 fire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burnt	obl
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burnt	aux
7	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 burnt	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	7 burnt	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hunter	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hunter	amod
12	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entered	nsubj
13	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 burnt	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 left	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 left	aux:pass
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 entered	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mountain	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mountain	det
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 left	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brothers	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 brothers	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thing	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 thing	amod
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brothers	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 thing	acl:relcl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 brothers	cop
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brothers	nmod:poss
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 brothers	nummod
30	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burnt	obl
31	—	-	PUNCT	_	33 bear	punct
32	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	33 bear	amod
33	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burnt	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 boy	punct
35	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	36 boy	amod
36	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bear	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 burnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burnt out	past · perfect		fire	as the fire; soon property	tree rules
2	enter	past	the little hunter			tree rules
3	leave	past · passive			of the mountain	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of mountain=Destination
4	see	past	hunter	the first thing not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	is a	past	the first thing	hunter's two brothers		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.

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