The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 85

Here he soon got better, and began to hunt, and to shoot wild duck with his bow; and wherever he went, his dog, now grown very old, went with him.

Who acts: prince · What happens: get, begin, hunt, shoot, go, grow · To what, where: wild duck, dog

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 got	advmod
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 got	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hunt	mark
10	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shoot	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shoot	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 shoot	mark
14	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hunt	conj
15	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 duck	amod
16	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shoot	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 bow	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bow	nmod:poss
19	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 duck	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
22	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	24 went	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dog	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dog	nmod:poss
27	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 grown	punct
29	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 grown	advmod
30	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 went	conj
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 old	advmod
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grown	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 went	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	prince		here		good, soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	begin	past	prince not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hunt	to-infinitive	prince not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shoot	to-infinitive	prince not said here	wild duck			with prince's bow	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent duck=Patient with bow=Instrument
5	go	past	prince	prince's dog			wherever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	grow	participle	prince not said here			now	old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	past	prince not said here				with prince	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary

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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