The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 25

He thought the meat was the best he ever had tasted, and when dinner was done he made up his mind to try that same trick again, if ever he was hungry.

Who acts: wolverine, meat · What happens: think, be, taste, do, make up, try · To what, where: dinner, mind, same trick · 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, meat), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meat	det
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 best	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 best	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 best	det
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 thought	ccomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tasted	nsubj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 tasted	advmod
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tasted	aux
11	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 best	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 made	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 done	advmod
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 done	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 done	aux:pass
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 made	advcl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 made	nsubj
19	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 made	compound:prt
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mind	nmod:poss
22	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 try	mark
24	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	advcl
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 trick	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trick	amod
27	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 try	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	24 try	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hungry	punct
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 hungry	mark
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 hungry	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hungry	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 hungry	cop
34	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 made	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	wolverine				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the meat			good property	tree rules
3	taste	past · perfect	wolverine		ever		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	do	past · passive		dinner			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	make up	past	wolverine	wolverine's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
6	try	to-infinitive	wolverine not said here	that same trick	again		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	wolverine		ever	hungry property	tree rules
8	mind		wolverine				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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