The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 3

But somehow his spells could not have worked properly that day, as the bear chief did not know that Redmouth had gone with his master, or he would have been more careful.

Who acts: bear chief, Redmouth, chief, boy · What happens: not work, not know, go, be, spell · To what, where: spells · 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 (bear chief, Redmouth, chief, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 worked	cc
2	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	4 spells	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 spells	nmod:poss
4	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 worked	nsubj:pass
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 worked	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 worked	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 worked	aux
8	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	properly	properly	ADV	_	8 worked	advmod
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worked	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 know	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chief	det
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chief	compound
16	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 worked	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 gone	mark
21	Redmouth	Redmouth	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 gone	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	aux
23	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 know	ccomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 master	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 master	nmod:poss
26	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gone	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 careful	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 careful	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 careful	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 careful	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 careful	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 careful	cop
33	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 careful	advmod
34	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 gone	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not work	could · perfect · passive		boy's spells	day	properly property	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
2	not know	past · do-support	the bear chief				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · perfect	Redmouth			with chief's master	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with master=Beneficiary
4	is	would · perfect	chief			careful property	tree rules
5	spell		boy				nom spell «state transitive»: poss=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.

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