The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 36

One day I was hunting and became very thirsty.

Who acts: I · What happens: hunt, become

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hunting	obl:unmarked
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hunting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunting	aux
5	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hunting	conj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 thirsty	advmod
9	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hunting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	I				day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	past	I not said here					thirsty property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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