The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 4
At these words, the bear came a little way down the tree, and the wolverine, seeing this, went on:
Who acts: bear · What happens: come, see, go on · To what, where: wolverine, words, this
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 way | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wolverine | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wolverine | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wolverine | det |
| 17 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seeing | punct |
| 19 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 seeing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the bear | the wolverine | this words | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | the bear not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go on | past | the bear not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «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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