The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 31

But the bear’s sister only smiled, and bade them go home and look after the little girl, who had no one else to protect her.

Who acts: sister, little girl · What happens: smile, go, look, have, protect · To what, where: bade, one, sister

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 (sister, little girl), 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	_	7 smiled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sister	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 bear	case
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smiled	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 smiled	advmod
7	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 go	cc
10	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bade	obj
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 smiled	parataxis
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 look	cc
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
16	after	after	ADP	_	19 girl	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 girl	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 girl	amod
19	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 girl	acl:relcl
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	else	else	ADV	_	24 one	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 protect	mark
27	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 one	acl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 protect	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past	the bear's sister					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	present		bade			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	infinitive				after the little girl		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	have	past	the little girl	no one				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	protect	to-infinitive	the little girl not said here	no one not said here	sister			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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