The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 91

All this time they had had no dinner, for the snake’s flesh was not nice, and the lion did not like eating bear—perhaps because he never felt sure that the bear was REALLY dead, and would not jump up alive when his enemy went near him.

Who acts: ears, flesh, lion, snake, bear, enemy · What happens: have, not be, not like, eat, not feel, be · To what, where: dinner, eating bear

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 (ears, flesh, lion, snake), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 time	det:predet
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl:unmarked
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 dinner	det
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 nice	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 nice	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snake	det
12	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flesh	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 snake	case
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 nice	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 nice	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 nice	advmod
17	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 like	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 like	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lion	det
21	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 like	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 like	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 like	advmod
24	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	parataxis
25	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 bear	amod
26	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 like	obj
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	32 felt	punct
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	32 felt	advmod
29	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 felt	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 felt	nsubj
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 felt	advmod
32	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 like	parataxis
33	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 felt	xcomp
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 dead	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bear	det
36	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 dead	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 dead	cop
38	REALLY	really	ADV	_	39 dead	advmod
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sure	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 jump	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 jump	cc
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 jump	aux
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 jump	advmod
44	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 felt	conj
45	up	up	ADV	_	46 alive	advmod
46	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 jump	xcomp
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 went	advmod
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 enemy	nmod:poss
49	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 went	nsubj
50	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 jump	advcl
51	near	near	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 went	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	ears = ear	no dinner	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
2	not is	past	the snake's flesh			nice property	tree rules
3	not like	past · do-support	the lion	eating bear			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bear=Theme
4	eat	gerund					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not feel	past	snake			perhaps, sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	past	the bear			dead property	tree rules
7	not jump up	would	snake not said here			alive property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	go	past	snake's enemy			near snake	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=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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