The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 14

“We will have supper together,” he remarked politely; but the bear, who had never been taught manners, made no reply, and ate as fast as he could.

Who acts: We, bear · What happens: have, remark, not teach, make, eat · To what, where: supper, bear, reply · 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 (We, 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 have	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 remarked	ccomp
5	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remarked	nsubj
10	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	politely	politely	ADV	_	10 remarked	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bear	det
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taught	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 taught	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 taught	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 taught	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 taught	aux:pass
21	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bear	acl:relcl
22	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	21 taught	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 remarked	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 reply	det
26	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ate	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ate	cc
29	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 remarked	conj
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 fast	advmod
31	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 ate	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 could	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 could	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fast	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	future	We	supper	together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
2	remark speech: assert	past	bear		politely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the bear		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient manners=Topic
4	make	past	the bear	no reply		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reply=Product
5	eat	past	bear not said here		fast property	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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