The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 106

The more he thought of it the more sulky he grew, and in the morning, when the lion said that it was time for them to start to hunt, the cat told him that he might kill the bear and snake by himself, as HE had a headache, and would rather stay at home.

Who acts: bear, sulky, lion, temper, cat, HE · What happens: think, grow, say, be, start, hunt · To what, where: time, bear, headache, home · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sulky, lion, temper), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 more	det
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 thought	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sulky	det
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 sulky	advmod
9	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grew	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 morning	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 morning	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 morning	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 morning	det
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grew	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 said	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lion	det
20	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grew	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 time	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 time	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 time	cop
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	ccomp
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 start	mark
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 start	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 start	mark
29	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 time	acl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 hunt	mark
31	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 start	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 told	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cat	det
34	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 told	nsubj
35	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grew	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	iobj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 kill	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kill	nsubj
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 kill	aux
40	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 told	ccomp
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bear	det
42	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kill	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 snake	cc
44	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bear	conj
45	by	by	ADP	_	46 himself	case
46	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 kill	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 had	punct
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 had	mark
49	HE	HE	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 had	nsubj
50	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 told	conj
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 headache	det
52	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 had	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 stay	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 stay	cc
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 stay	aux
56	rather	rather	ADV	_	57 stay	advmod
57	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 grew	conj
58	at	at	ADP	_	59 home	case
59	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 stay	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	bear					of temper	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	past	the sulky				morning		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the lion						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	temper	time					tree rules
5	start	to-infinitive	Lion						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	hunt	to-infinitive	Lion not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert	past	the cat		bear				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
8	kill	might	bear	the bear and snake				by bear	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
9	have	past	HE	a headache					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Patient
10	stay	would	the sulky not said here			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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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