The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 118

“Ah! here is food at last!” thought he; but how was he to kill the bear, who was so much bigger than himself?

Who acts: food, Wolverine, bear · What happens: be, think · To what, where: food, last, Wolverine · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (food, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 food	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 food	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Ah	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 food	cop
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 last	case
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	nmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 food	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 food	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 kill	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 kill	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 kill	advmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 kill	cop
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kill	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 kill	mark
19	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bear	det
21	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kill	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bigger	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 bigger	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bigger	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADV	_	27 bigger	advmod
27	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 bear	amod
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 himself	case
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 bigger	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		food	last		tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	food	Wolverine			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
3	is	past	Wolverine			kill property	tree rules
4	is	past	the bear			than Wolverine; big property	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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