The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 113

The boy was so thankful that the lion did not want to eat him, that he gladly picked up his knapsack which lay on the ground, and held out some bread and a flask of wine.

Who acts: boy, lion, knapsack · What happens: be, not want, eat, pick up, lie, hold out · To what, where: lion, knapsack, ground, bread

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 (boy, lion, knapsack), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thankful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thankful	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 thankful	advmod
5	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 want	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lion	det
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 want	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 want	advmod
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thankful	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 want	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 picked	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 picked	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 picked	nsubj
18	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	19 picked	advmod
19	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 picked	compound:prt
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 knapsack	nmod:poss
22	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 picked	obj
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 knapsack	acl:relcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 held	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 held	cc
30	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 picked	advcl
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 held	compound:prt
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 bread	det
33	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 held	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 flask	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 flask	det
36	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bread	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 wine	case
38	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flask	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thankful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy			thankful property	tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	the lion				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the lion not said here	lion			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	pick up	past	lion	lion's knapsack		gladly property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Topic
5	lie	past	lion's knapsack		the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
6	hold out	participle	lion not said here	some bread and a flask of wine			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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