The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 100

When the wolverine, who was very particular about his clothes, came to put it on, he grew very angry.

Who acts: wolverine · What happens: be, come, put on, grow · To what, where: accident

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolverine), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolverine	det
3	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 particular	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 particular	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 particular	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 particular	advmod
8	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wolverine	parataxis
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 clothes	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 clothes	nmod:poss
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 particular	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 clothes	punct
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grew	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 put	mark
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 came	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 angry	advmod
22	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grew	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wolverine		about Wolverine's clothes; particular property	tree rules
2	come	past	the wolverine			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put on	to-infinitive	the wolverine not said here	accident		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	grow	past	Wolverine		angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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