The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 77

In general the wild cat did not need to use his ball, for the lion was fond of hunting, and could kill all the food that they needed; but now and then his life would have been in danger had it not been for the golden ball.

Who acts: wild cat, lion, life, danger · What happens: not need, use, be, kill, need, have · To what, where: general, ball, food, danger

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 (wild cat, lion, life, danger), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 general	case
2	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 need	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 need	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 need	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 need	advmod
8	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 use	mark
10	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 need	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ball	nmod:poss
12	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 use	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fond	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 fond	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lion	det
16	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fond	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fond	cop
18	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 use	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 hunting	case
20	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fond	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kill	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kill	cc
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 kill	aux
24	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fond	conj
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 food	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 food	det
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kill	obj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 needed	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 needed	nsubj
30	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 kill	advcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 had	cc
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 had	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 danger	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 danger	advmod
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 life	nmod:poss
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 danger	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 danger	aux
39	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 danger	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 danger	cop
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 danger	case
42	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 need	conj
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	obj
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 ball	advmod
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 ball	cop
47	for	for	ADP	_	50 ball	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 ball	det
49	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 ball	amod
50	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 had	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	past · do-support	the wild cat		general			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wild cat not said here	Neuislandischen's ball				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
3	is	past	the lion				of hunting; fond property	tree rules
4	kill	could	the lion not said here	all food				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
5	need	past	Lion					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is	would · perfect	Neuislandischen's life		danger	then		tree rules
7	have	past	danger	ball		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	not is	participle					for the golden ball	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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