The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 108

The quarrel went on, and for many days neither of the brothers spoke to each other, and what made them still more cross was, that they could get very little to eat, and we know that people are often cross when they are hungry.

Who acts: quarrel, brothers, Lion, we, people · What happens: go on, speak, make, be, eat, know · To what, where: Lion · 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 (quarrel, brothers, Lion, we), 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 quarrel	det
2	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spoke	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spoke	cc
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 days	amod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spoke	obl
10	neither	neither	ADV	_	13 brothers	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 brothers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 brothers	det
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spoke	nsubj
14	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 each	case
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 spoke	obl
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	obj
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 cross	amod
25	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obl:unmarked
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 get	cop
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 get	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	parataxis
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 little	advmod
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 get	xcomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 little	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 know	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 know	cc
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 know	nsubj
39	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 cross	mark
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 cross	nsubj
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 cross	cop
43	often	often	ADV	_	44 cross	advmod
44	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 know	ccomp
45	when	when	SCONJ	_	48 hungry	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 hungry	nsubj
47	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 hungry	cop
48	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 cross	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the quarrel				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	the brothers		day	to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent
3	make	past		Lion			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product
4	is	could · past	Lion			more cross obl:unmarked; get, little property	tree rules
5	eat	to-infinitive	Lion not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	know	present	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	present	people			cross, often property	tree rules
8	is	present	Lion			hungry property	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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