The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 12

“I am running away from the mermaid,” answered the boy; but the bear took no interest in the mermaid, and only said: “I am hungry; give me something to eat.”

Who acts: boy, bear · What happens: run away, answer, take, say, be, give · To what, where: interest, something, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 running	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 running	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 running	aux
4	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 answered	advcl
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 running	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mermaid	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mermaid	det
8	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 running	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 running	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bear	det
17	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 interest	det
20	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 mermaid	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mermaid	det
23	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 interest	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 said	advmod
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 hungry	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 hungry	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 hungry	nsubj
31	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 hungry	cop
32	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	ccomp
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	ccomp
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 give	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 eat	mark
38	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 something	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	run away in a quote	present · progressive	the boy = boy			from the mermaid; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from mermaid=Trajectory
2	answer speech: assert	past	the boy				tree rules
3	take	past	the bear	no interest		in the mermaid	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in mermaid=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the bear not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	the boy = boy			hungry property	tree rules
6	give in a quote	infinitive		something	the boy = boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient something=Theme
7	eat in a quote	to-infinitive		something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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