The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 92

And before very long he found he was too late, for the bear had come round by another path, and guessing where his enemy was began to scratch at the roots of the tree.

Who acts: bear, enemy · What happens: find, be, come round, guess, scratch · 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, enemy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
2	before	before	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 found	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 late	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 late	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 late	advmod
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 found	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 come	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bear	det
14	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 found	conj
17	round	round	ADV	_	16 come	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 path	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 path	det
20	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 guessing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 guessing	cc
23	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 found	advcl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 began	advmod
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 enemy	nmod:poss
26	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 began	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 began	cop
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 guessing	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 scratch	mark
30	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 roots	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 roots	det
33	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 scratch	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 roots	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	find	past	bear	long property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	bear	late property	tree rules
3	come round	past · perfect	the bear	by another path; round property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by path=Location
4	guess	gerund	bear not said here		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	bear's enemy	begin property	tree rules
6	scratch	to-infinitive	bear's enemy not said here	at the roots of the tree	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at root=Patient

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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