The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 2

Now the wolverine was very angry when he saw his dinner vanishing in front of him, especially as HE could not climb trees like the bear, so he followed, and stood at the foot of the tree, shrieking as loud as he could, “Come down, sister; our father has sent me to look for you!

Who acts: wolverine, dinner, father · What happens: be, see, vanish, not climb, follow, stand · To what, where: dinner, front, trees, foot, sister, bear · 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 (wolverine, dinner, father), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 angry	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolverine	det
3	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saw	advcl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dinner	nmod:poss
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 dinner	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanishing	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 front	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 climb	punct
18	especially	especially	ADV	_	23 climb	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 climb	mark
20	HE	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 climb	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 climb	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 climb	advmod
23	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 vanishing	conj
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 climb	obj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 bear	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bear	det
27	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trees	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 followed	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 followed	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 followed	nsubj
31	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stood	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stood	cc
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 foot	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 foot	det
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 tree	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tree	det
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 foot	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 shrieking	punct
42	shrieking	shriek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 stood	advcl
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 loud	advmod
44	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 shrieking	xcomp
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 could	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 could	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 loud	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Come	punct
49	“	"	PUNCT	_	50 Come	punct
50	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 stood	conj
51	down	down	ADV	_	50 Come	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sister	punct
53	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 Come	obl
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 sent	punct
55	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 father	nmod:poss
56	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 sent	nsubj
57	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 sent	aux
58	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 saw	conj
59	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 sent	obj
60	to	to	PART	_	61 look	mark
61	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 sent	advcl
62	for	for	ADP	_	63 you	case
63	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	61 look	obl
64	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wolverine			now	angry property	tree rules
2	see	past	wolverine	wolverine's dinner				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinner=Stimulus
3	vanish	gerund	wolverine's dinner not said here		front of wolverine			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not climb	could	wolverine	trees			like the bear; especially property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
5	follow	past	wolverine					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	past	wolverine not said here		the foot of the tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
7	shriek	gerund	wolverine not said here				loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come down in a quote	infinitive	wolverine not said here	sister			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	send in a quote	present · perfect	our father	the bear = bear				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
10	look in a quote	to-infinitive	our father not said here				for you	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for you=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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