The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 117

He was growing desperate, when he suddenly came upon a bear that was lying asleep.

Who acts: Wolverine, bear · What happens: grow, come, lie · To what, where: bear

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, bear), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 growing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 growing	aux
3	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 growing	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 growing	conj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 bear	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bear	det
12	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lying	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lying	aux
15	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bear	acl:relcl
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lying	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 growing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	Wolverine		desperate property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Wolverine	a bear	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bear=Location
3	lie	past · progressive	a bear		asleep property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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