The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 102

The bear was silent, and thought of his supper; and the two continued their journey till they reached another tree with a woodpecker tapping on it.

Who acts: bear, two, Fox, woodpecker · What happens: be, think, continue, reach, tap, journey · To what, where: journey, tree

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, two, Fox, woodpecker), 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	4 silent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 silent	cop
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thought	cc
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 silent	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 supper	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 supper	nmod:poss
10	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 continued	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 continued	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 two	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 continued	nsubj
15	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 silent	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 journey	nmod:poss
17	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 continued	obj
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 reached	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 continued	advcl
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 woodpecker	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 woodpecker	det
25	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obl
26	tapping	tap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 woodpecker	acl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tapping	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 silent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bear		silent property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past			of bear's supper	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	continue	past	the two	Fox's journey		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
4	reach	past	Fox	another tree	with a woodpecker	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
5	tap	gerund	a woodpecker not said here		on woodpecker	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on it=Patient
6	journey		Fox			nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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