The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 10
The boy rose and turned his head, and saw a huge black bear coming towards him.
Who acts: boy, huge black bear · What happens: rise, turn, see, come · To what, where: head, huge black bear
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, huge black 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 turned | cc |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bear | det |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bear | amod |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bear | amod |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 bear | acl |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 coming | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the boy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | the boy not said here | boy's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the boy not said here | a huge black bear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | a huge black bear not said here | towards boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location |
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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