The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 81

“How DID you get under that rock?” asked they, making a ring round him; but they had to repeat their question several times before the wolverine would answer, for he, like many other persons, found it hard to confess that he had brought his troubles on himself.

Who acts: you, sorts, wolverine, question · What happens: get, ask, make, have, repeat, answer · To what, where: rock, ring, question, troubles · 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 (you, sorts, wolverine, question), 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	_	5 get	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
3	DID	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 rock	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 making	punct
14	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 asked	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ring	det
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 making	obj
17	round	round	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 making	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 repeat	mark
24	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	xcomp
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 question	nmod:poss
26	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 repeat	obj
27	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 times	amod
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 repeat	obl:unmarked
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	33 answer	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wolverine	det
31	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 answer	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 answer	aux
33	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 repeat	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 persons	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	41 persons	case
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 persons	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 persons	punct
38	like	like	ADP	_	41 persons	case
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 persons	amod
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 persons	amod
41	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 found	punct
43	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 had	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 found	obj
45	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 found	xcomp
46	to	to	PART	_	47 confess	mark
47	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 hard	xcomp
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 brought	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 brought	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 brought	aux
51	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 confess	ccomp
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 troubles	nmod:poss
53	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 brought	obj
54	on	on	ADP	_	55 himself	case
55	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	51 brought	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past · do-support	you		that rock			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	past	sorts = sort					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	gerund	sorts = sort not said here	a ring			round rock	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ring=Product
4	have	past	sorts = sort				for many other persons	tree rules
5	repeat	to-infinitive	sorts = sort not said here	sorts's question		time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
6	answer speech: assert	would	the wolverine					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	find	past	sorts = sort not said here	question			hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
8	confess	to-infinitive	question not said here					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	bring	past · perfect	Wolverine	Wolverine's troubles			on Wolverine	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme on himself=Destination
10	question		sorts = sort					nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent
11	trouble		Wolverine					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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