The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 19

The boy was rather indignant at the bear’s cool way of talking; but as he was too tired to gather more fern, they lay down side by side, and never stirred till sunrise next morning.

Who acts: boy, cool way, bear, ferns · What happens: be, talk, gather, lay down, not stir · To what, where: more fern, side

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, cool way, bear, ferns), 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	5 indignant	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 indignant	cop
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 indignant	advmod
5	indignant	indignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bear	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ’s	obl
9	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 indignant	conj
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ’s	obj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 talking	mark
13	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 way	acl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 tired	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 tired	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 tired	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tired	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tired	cop
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 tired	advmod
20	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 indignant	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 gather	mark
22	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tired	xcomp
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 fern	amod
24	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gather	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 indignant	parataxis
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 lay	advmod
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 side	case
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stirred	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 stirred	cc
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 stirred	advmod
35	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 lay	conj
36	till	till	ADP	_	37 sunrise	case
37	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stirred	obl
38	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 morning	amod
39	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 stirred	obl:unmarked
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 indignant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy			indignant property	tree rules
2	talk	gerund	cool way not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	bear			tired property	tree rules
4	gather	to-infinitive	bear not said here	more fern			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fern=Theme
5	lay down	present	ferns = fern	side		by side; down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by side=Destination
6	not stir	participle	ferns = fern not said here		morning; sunrise		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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