The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 15

It took the bear a long while to gather the berries, for she was slow about everything, and, besides, it made her back ache to stoop.

Who acts: It, bear, sight · What happens: take, gather, be, make, ache, stoop · To what, where: bear, berries

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 (It, bear, sight), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 while	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 while	amod
7	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 gather	mark
9	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 berries	det
11	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gather	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slow	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 slow	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slow	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 slow	cop
16	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 everything	case
18	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 slow	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 made	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	besides	besides	INTJ	_	25 made	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 besides	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	nsubj
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 made	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	28 ache	advmod
28	ache	ache	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 made	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stoop	mark
30	stoop	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ache	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It	the bear	while		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
2	gather	to-infinitive		the berries			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme
3	is	past	bear			about everything; slow property	tree rules
4	make	past	sight	bear			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product
5	ache	present	sight not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	stoop	to-infinitive	sight not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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