The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 5

So the bear sat down on the edge of the pit, and the fox sprang on his back, which he crossed with the willow ropes, and then set fire to the pitch.

Who acts: bear, fox · What happens: sit down, spring, cross, set · To what, where: edge, back, fire

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, fox), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 pit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pit	det
11	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sprang	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sprang	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fox	det
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sprang	nsubj
16	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 back	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 back	nmod:poss
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sprang	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crossed	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 crossed	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 crossed	nsubj
23	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 back	acl:relcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 ropes	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ropes	det
26	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ropes	compound
27	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 crossed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 set	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 set	advmod
31	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sprang	conj
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 pitch	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pitch	det
35	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	the bear		the edge of the pit			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
2	spring	past	the fox		fox's back			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
3	cross	past	fox	fox's back			with the willow ropes	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	set	infinitive	the fox not said here	fire		then	to the pitch	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result

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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