The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 109

At last it occurred to the lion that if he could only steal the magic ball he could kill bears and snakes for himself, and then the cat might be as sulky as he liked for anything that it would matter.

Who acts: quarrel, brother, cat, it · What happens: occur, steal, kill, be, like, matter · To what, where: last, magic ball, bears

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, brother, cat, it), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 occurred	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 occurred	nsubj
4	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 occurred	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 steal	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 steal	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 steal	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 steal	aux
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 steal	advmod
13	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 occurred	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ball	det
15	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ball	compound
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 steal	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 kill	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 kill	aux
19	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ball	acl:relcl
20	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 kill	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 snakes	cc
22	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bears	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 kill	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sulky	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sulky	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 sulky	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cat	det
29	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sulky	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 sulky	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 sulky	cop
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 sulky	advmod
33	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 occurred	parataxis
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 liked	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 liked	nsubj
36	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sulky	advcl
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 anything	case
38	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	36 liked	obl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 matter	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 matter	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 matter	aux
42	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 anything	acl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 occurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occur	past	quarrel		last		to the lion	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	steal a condition, not said to happen	could	brother	the magic ball				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ball=Theme
3	kill	could	brother	bears and snakes			for brother	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
4	is	might	the cat			then	sulky property	tree rules
5	like	past	brother				for anything	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for anything=Attribute
6	matter	would	it					vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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