The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 64
By-and-by he met a bear, who stopped and said: “Where did you find that fish, Mr. Fox?”
Who acts: snow, bear, you · What happens: meet, stop, say, find · To what, where: bear, fish · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (snow, bear, you), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 met | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 met | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bear | det |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stopped | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bear | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stopped | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 17 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 find | advmod |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 fish | det |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Fox | punct |
| 24 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Fox | compound |
| 25 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fish | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | snow | a bear | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | a bear | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | a bear not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | past · do-support | you | that fish and Mr. Fox | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic |
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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