The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 27

For the rest of the day he remained a bear and continued his journey, but as evening came on the bear-skin, which had been so useful when plunging through brambles in the forest, felt rather heavy, and he wished himself a boy again.

Who acts: bear, bear skin · What happens: remain, continue, come, be, plunge, feel · To what, where: bear, journey, bear skin, brambles

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 (bear, bear skin), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 rest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remained	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remained	nsubj
8	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remained	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 continued	cc
12	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remained	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 journey	nmod:poss
14	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continued	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 evening	case
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remained	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 skin	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 skin	det
22	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 skin	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 bear	punct
24	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 useful	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 useful	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 useful	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 useful	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 useful	advmod
30	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 skin	conj
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 plunging	advmod
32	plunging	plunge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 useful	advcl
33	through	through	ADP	_	34 brambles	case
34	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 plunging	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 forest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 forest	det
37	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 plunging	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 felt	punct
39	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
40	rather	rather	ADV	_	41 heavy	advmod
41	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 felt	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 wished	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 wished	cc
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 wished	nsubj
45	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remained	conj
46	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 wished	obj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 boy	det
48	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 wished	obj
49	again	again	ADV	_	45 wished	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	bear	a bear			for the rest of the day	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bear=Attribute
2	continue	past	bear not said here	bear's journey				vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
3	come	past			the bear skin	evening		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on skin=Location
4	is	past · perfect	the bear skin				useful property	tree rules
5	plunge	gerund	the bear skin not said here		brambles		in the forest	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute
6	feel	past					heavy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	wish	past	bear	bear		again		tree rules
8	journey		bear					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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