The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 93

The bear waited until he was out of sight, and then followed him slowly, for he felt in his heart that the boy’s advice was good, though he was too proud to say so.

Who acts: bear, nonsense, advice · What happens: wait, be, follow, feel, say · To what, where: sight, nonsense · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bear, nonsense, advice), 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 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 sight	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sight	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sight	cop
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 sight	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sight	case
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 followed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 followed	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 followed	advmod
13	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 followed	obj
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	13 followed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 felt	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 felt	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 felt	nsubj
19	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 heart	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 heart	nmod:poss
22	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 felt	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 good	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 advice	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 boy	case
27	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 good	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 good	cop
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 felt	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 proud	punct
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	35 proud	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 proud	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 proud	cop
34	too	too	ADV	_	35 proud	advmod
35	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 good	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 say	mark
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 proud	csubj
38	so	so	ADV	_	37 say	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the bear					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	nonsense		sight			tree rules
3	follow	past	the bear not said here	nonsense		then	slowly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	feel	past	nonsense				in nonsense's heart	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in heart=Attribute
5	is	past	the boy's advice				good property	tree rules
6	is	past	nonsense				proud property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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