The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 19

The bear, who was very tired, was only too glad to do as she was bid, and stretched herself comfortably on the grass.

Who acts: bear · What happens: be, do, bid, stretch · To what, where: bear, grass

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), 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	12 glad	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tired	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 tired	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 tired	advmod
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bear	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bear	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 glad	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 glad	advmod
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 glad	advmod
12	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 glad	xcomp
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 bid	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bid	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bid	aux:pass
18	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 do	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stretched	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stretched	cc
21	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 glad	advcl
22	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 stretched	obj
23	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	21 stretched	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 grass	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 grass	det
26	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stretched	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bear			tired property	tree rules
2	is	past	the bear			glad property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	the bear not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bid	past · passive		bear			tree rules
5	stretch	past	the bear not said here	bear	the grass	comfortably property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herself=Patient

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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