The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 79

The first to start on the morning of the wedding-day was the bear, who always liked to be punctual; and, besides, he had a long way to go, and his hair, being so thick and rough, needed a good brushing before it was fit to be seen at a party.

Who acts: way, it · What happens: start, be, like, have, go, need · To what, where: bear, long way, good brushing, party

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, it), 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 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 start	mark
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 first	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 wedding	punct
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bear	obl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bear	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bear	det
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 morning	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 liked	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 liked	obj
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 liked	advmod
19	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bear	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 punctual	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 punctual	cop
22	punctual	punctual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 liked	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 and	punct
26	besides	besides	INTJ	_	29 had	discourse
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 besides	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 first	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 way	det
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 way	amod
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 way	acl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hair	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 hair	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hair	nmod:poss
38	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 thick	punct
40	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 thick	cop
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 thick	advmod
42	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hair	amod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rough	cc
44	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 thick	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 needed	punct
46	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 thick	conj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 brushing	det
48	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 brushing	amod
49	brushing	brushing	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 needed	obj
50	before	before	SCONJ	_	53 fit	mark
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 fit	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 fit	cop
53	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 needed	advcl
54	to	to	PART	_	56 seen	mark
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	56 seen	aux:pass
56	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 fit	xcomp
57	at	at	ADP	_	59 party	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 party	det
59	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 seen	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	to-infinitive				morning		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	past		the bear		day		tree rules
3	like	past		the bear			always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot who=Theme
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive					punctual property	tree rules
5	have	past	way	a long way			way's hair obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
6	go	to-infinitive	way not said here	a long way not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	gerund					thick property	tree rules
8	be							tree rules
9	need	past		a good brushing				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot brushing=Theme
10	is	past	it				fit property	tree rules
11	see	to-infinitive · passive			a party			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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