The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 23

“I wonder how it feels to be a bear,” thought he to himself when he had walked a little way; and he took out the tip from the breast of his coat and wished hard that he might become a bear.

Who acts: I, turn, bear · What happens: wonder, feel, be, think, walk, take out · To what, where: bear, little way, tip, breast · 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 (I, turn, 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	_	3 wonder	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wonder	nsubj
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	ccomp
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 feels	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feels	nsubj
6	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	10 bear	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 bear	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feels	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 thought	obl
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 walked	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 walked	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 walked	aux
20	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 thought	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walked	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	nsubj
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 took	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tip	det
30	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 breast	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 breast	det
33	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 coat	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 coat	nmod:poss
36	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 breast	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wished	cc
38	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 took	conj
39	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 wished	advmod
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 become	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 become	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 become	aux
43	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 wished	advcl
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 bear	det
45	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 become	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask in a quote	present	I					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	feel in a quote	present	turn					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	turn not said here	a bear				tree rules
4	think speech: other	past		bear	bear			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
5	walk	past · perfect	bear	a little way				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	take out	past	bear	the tip		the breast of bear's coat		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme from breast=Initial_Location
7	wish	past	bear not said here				hard property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	become	might	bear	a bear				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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