The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 80
“There is a bear sitting on that tree,” he whispered softly.
Who acts: bear · What happens: be, sit, whisper · To what, where: tree · 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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 whispered | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 bear | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sitting | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 whispered | nsubj |
| 13 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 13 whispered | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a bear | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | gerund | a bear not said here | that tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | bear | softly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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