The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 98

It was quite dark when the lion came home, where his brother was sitting curled up in one corner.

Who acts: house, lion, brother · What happens: be, come, sit, curl up · To what, where: one corner

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 (house, lion, brother), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	advcl
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sitting	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 sitting	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brother	nmod:poss
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sitting	aux
15	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
16	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sitting	xcomp
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 curled	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 corner	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 corner	nummod
20	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 curled	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	house		dark property	tree rules
2	come	past	the lion		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	brother's brother			tree rules
4	curl up	participle	brother's brother not said here	one corner		vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

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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