The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 105

He had thought a great deal about that deer, and had meant to get on his back to ride him as a horse, and go to see all the wonderful places the lion talked to him about when he was in a good temper.

Who acts: bear, lion · What happens: think, mean, get, ride, go, see · To what, where: great deal, back, bear, wonderful places

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, lion), 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	3 thought	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	aux
3	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deal	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deal	amod
6	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 deer	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 deer	det
9	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deal	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 meant	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 meant	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 meant	aux
13	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thought	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 meant	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 back	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 back	nmod:poss
18	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 ride	mark
20	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 get	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ride	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 horse	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 horse	det
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ride	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 meant	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	xcomp
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 places	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 places	det
32	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 places	amod
33	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 see	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lion	det
35	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 talked	nsubj
36	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 places	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 talked	obl
39	about	about	ADP	_	46 temper	case
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 temper	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 temper	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 temper	cop
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 temper	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 temper	det
45	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 temper	amod
46	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 talked	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · perfect	bear	a great deal			about that deer	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme
2	mean	past · perfect						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive				bear's back		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
4	ride	to-infinitive		bear			as a horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	go	infinitive						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see	to-infinitive		all wonderful places				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
7	talk	past	the lion	all wonderful places not said here	bear			tree rules
8	is	past	bear				about a good temper	tree rules

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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