The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 106

But one day he happened to eat some poisonous berries that he had found in the forest, and grew so ill that he felt he was going to die.

Who acts: Carrier · What happens: happen, eat, find, grow, feel, go · To what, where: poisonous berries, forest

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 happened	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 eat	mark
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 happened	xcomp
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 berries	det
9	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 berries	amod
10	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 eat	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happened	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 ill	advmod
22	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grew	xcomp
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 felt	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 felt	nsubj
25	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ill	advcl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 going	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 going	aux
28	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 felt	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 die	mark
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 going	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Carrier			day		tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	Carrier not said here	some poisonous berries				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient
3	find	past · perfect	Carrier		the forest			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	grow	past	Carrier not said here				ill property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feel	past	Carrier					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	go	past · progressive	Carrier					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	die	to-infinitive	Carrier not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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