The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 66

“Dear me,” snarled the bear, who was hungry and not in a good temper, “if the fish hung on to your tail, I suppose he will hang on to mine.”

Who acts: me, bear, fish · What happens: snarl, be, hang on, suppose · To what, where: bear · 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 (me, bear, fish), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 snarled	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 me	amod
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 snarled	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
6	snarled	snarl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snarled	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hungry	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hungry	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hungry	cop
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bear	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 temper	cc
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 temper	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 temper	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 temper	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 temper	amod
18	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hungry	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 hung	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fish	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	nsubj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 snarled	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	24 hung	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 tail	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 tail	nmod:poss
28	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hung	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 suppose	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 suppose	nsubj
31	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 snarled	conj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hang	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 hang	aux
34	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 suppose	ccomp
35	on	on	ADP	_	34 hang	compound:prt
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 mine	case
37	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hang	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 snarled	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 snarled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	snarl	past	me	the bear			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
2	is	past	the bear			hungry property	tree rules
3	hang on a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the fish			to your tail	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	suppose in a quote	present	a bear = bear				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	hang on in a quote	future	bear		a bear = bear		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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