The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 81
Taking one of his hind feet between his two front paws, he said softly:
Who acts: bear · What happens: take, say · To what, where: one · 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 (bear), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feet | amod |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 paws | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 paws | nmod:poss |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 paws | nummod |
| 10 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 paws | amod |
| 11 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 feet | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | bear not said here | one of bear's hind feet between bear's two front paws | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | bear | softly property | 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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