The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 50

He gathered a bundle of sticks for a fire, and was just preparing to cook a steak, when his enemy, the Lapp, came up, panting with haste and excitement.

Who acts: fox, enemy · What happens: gather, prepare, cook, come up, pant · To what, where: bundle, steak

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 (fox, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bundle	det
4	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gathered	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 sticks	case
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bundle	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sticks	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 preparing	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 preparing	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 preparing	aux
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 preparing	advmod
14	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gathered	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cook	mark
16	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 preparing	xcomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 steak	det
18	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cook	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 came	advmod
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 enemy	nmod:poss
22	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Lapp	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Lapp	det
25	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 enemy	appos
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Lapp	punct
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 preparing	conj
28	up	up	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 panting	punct
30	panting	pant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 came	advcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 haste	case
32	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 panting	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 excitement	cc
34	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 haste	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gather	past	fox	a bundle of sticks for a fire		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
2	prepare	past · progressive	fox not said here			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
3	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	fox not said here	a steak		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent steak=Patient
4	come up	past	fox's enemy			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pant	gerund	fox's enemy not said here		with haste and excitement	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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