The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 105

For a long while Ball-Carrier was content to stay quietly at home with his wife and children, for he was tired of adventures, and only did enough hunting to supply the house with food.

Who acts: Ball Carrier, Carrier · What happens: be, stay, do, supply · To what, where: home, enough hunting, house

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ball Carrier, Carrier), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 long	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 long	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 content	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 content	mark
5	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Carrier	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Ball	punct
7	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 content	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 content	cop
9	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stay	mark
11	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 content	xcomp
12	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	11 stay	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stay	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 wife	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stay	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 children	cc
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wife	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tired	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 tired	case
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tired	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tired	cop
24	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 content	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 adventures	case
26	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tired	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 did	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 did	cc
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 did	advmod
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 content	parataxis
31	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hunting	amod
32	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 did	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 supply	mark
34	supply	supply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 did	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 house	det
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 supply	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 food	case
38	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 house	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Ball Carrier			for a long; content property	tree rules
2	stay	to-infinitive	Ball Carrier not said here		home	with Carrier's wife and children; quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
3	is	past	Carrier			of adventures; tired property	tree rules
4	do	past		enough hunting			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Eventuality
5	supply	to-infinitive		the house		with food	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Recipient with food=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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