The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 21
So the bear promised to lie very still; but the moment the cranberries touched her eyes she sprang up with a roar.
Who acts: bear, moment · What happens: promise, lie, touch, spring up · To what, where: eyes
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, moment), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 promised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lie | mark |
| 6 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 still | advmod |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 lie | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 touched | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 touched | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touched | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cranberries | det |
| 14 | cranberries | cranberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 moment | conj |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | parataxis |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 touched | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sprang | nsubj |
| 19 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 touched | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 sprang | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 roar | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 roar | det |
| 23 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprang | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the bear | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lie not said to happen | to-infinitive | the bear not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | the moment and the cranberries | bear's eyes | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | spring up | past | bear | with a roar | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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