The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 1
The bear turned round and saw the wolverine, and murmuring to herself, so low that nobody could hear, “I never heard before that I had a brother,” got up and ran quickly to a tree, up which she climbed.
Who acts: bear, nobody, I · What happens: turn round, see, murmur, hear, not hear, have · To what, where: wolverine, bear, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, nobody, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wolverine | det |
| 8 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 murmuring | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 murmuring | cc |
| 11 | murmuring | murmur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 saw | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 herself | case |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 murmuring | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 low | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 low | advmod |
| 16 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 hear | mark |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 hear | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hear | aux |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 low | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 heard | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 heard | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 heard | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 heard | advmod |
| 25 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 heard | obl |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 heard | ccomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 brother | det |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 heard | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 34 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 got | compound:prt |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ran | cc |
| 37 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 got | conj |
| 38 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 37 ran | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 tree | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 tree | det |
| 41 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ran | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 climbed | punct |
| 43 | up | up | ADV | _ | 46 climbed | advmod |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 climbed | obj |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 climbed | nsubj |
| 46 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 got | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | the bear | round property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the bear not said here | the wolverine | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolverine=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | murmur speech: other | gerund | the bear not said here | bear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hear | could | nobody | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not hear in a quote | past | I | before that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | past | I | a brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 7 | get up | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 8 | run | past | to a tree result; quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | |||||
| 9 | climb | past | bear | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location which=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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