The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 120

At last, after thinking hard, he decided upon something, and going up to the bear, he exclaimed: “Is that you, my sister?”

Who acts: Wolverine · What happens: think, decide, go up, exclaim, be · 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 (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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 decided	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 thinking	mark
5	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 last	advcl
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 thinking	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 decided	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 decided	nsubj
9	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 something	case
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 decided	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 exclaimed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 exclaimed	cc
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 exclaimed	advcl
15	up	up	ADV	_	14 going	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 bear	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bear	det
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 exclaimed	nsubj
21	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 decided	conj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 you	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 you	punct
24	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 you	cop
25	that	that	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 exclaimed	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sister	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sister	nmod:poss
29	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 you	appos
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 sister	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	Wolverine not said here	hard property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	decide	past	Wolverine	upon something	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go up	gerund	Wolverine not said here	to the bear	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	exclaim speech: express	past	Wolverine		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	present		that you	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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