The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 34

“Now become a bear,” said she; and a bear advanced panting and stretching out his arms to the Red Knight, who shrank behind the princess.

Who acts: princess, bear, advanced panting · What happens: become, say, panting, stretch out, shrink · To what, where: bear, arms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, bear, advanced panting), 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 become	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 become	advmod
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 become	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 become	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 panting	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 panting	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bear	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 panting	nsubj
14	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 panting	amod
15	panting	panting	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stretching	cc
17	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 panting	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 stretching	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stretching	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 Knight	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Knight	det
23	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Knight	flat
24	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 stretching	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shrank	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 shrank	nsubj
27	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 panting	conj
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	30 princess	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 princess	det
30	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shrank	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become in a quote	infinitive		a bear	now		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	panting		a bear				tree rules
4	stretch out	gerund	a bear not said here	man's arms		to the Red Knight result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent arm=Patient to knight=Result
5	shrink	past	advanced panting			behind the princess	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: 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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