The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 38

“It must feel quite different to be a bee from what it does to be a lion or bear,” thought the boy to himself when he had walked for an hour or two.

Who acts: It, hair, boy, bee · What happens: feel, be, do, think, walk · To what, where: bee, lion · 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 (It, hair, boy, bee), 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 feel	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feel	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 different	advmod
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	10 bee	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 bee	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bee	det
10	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 different	advcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 what	case
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 bee	nmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 does	nsubj
14	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	18 lion	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 lion	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lion	det
18	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 does	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 bear	cc
20	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lion	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thought	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 thought	obl
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 walked	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 walked	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 walked	aux
31	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 feel	advcl
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 hour	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 hour	det
34	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walked	obl
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 two	cc
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 hour	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	must	It				different property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a bee				tree rules
3	do in a quote	present	hair					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a lion or bear				tree rules
5	think speech: other	past	the boy		bee			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	walk	past · perfect	bee			hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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