The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 31

“But he must be here somewhere,” she said to herself, examining for the second time the pile of buffalo skins; and Ball-Carrier, knowing that he could not possibly escape now, hastily wished that the Bad One should be unable to eat any more food at present.

Who acts: bade, thief, Ball, Bad One · What happens: be, say, examine, know, not escape, wish · To what, where: thief, more food, present · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bade, thief, Ball, Bad One), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 here	cc
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 here	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 here	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 here	cop
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 somewhere	advmod
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 said	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 somewhere	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 somewhere	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 herself	case
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 examining	punct
15	examining	examine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 time	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
18	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 examining	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pile	det
21	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 time	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 skins	case
23	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 skins	compound
24	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pile	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 knowing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 knowing	cc
27	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 knowing	nsubj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Carrier	punct
29	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Ball	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 knowing	punct
31	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 escape	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 escape	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 escape	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 escape	advmod
36	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	37 escape	advmod
37	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 knowing	advcl
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 escape	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 wished	punct
40	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	41 wished	advmod
41	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 unable	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 One	det
44	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 One	amod
45	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 unable	nsubj
46	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 unable	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 unable	cop
48	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 wished	ccomp
49	to	to	PART	_	50 eat	mark
50	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 unable	xcomp
51	any	any	ADV	_	52 more	advmod
52	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	53 food	amod
53	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 eat	obj
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 present	case
55	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 eat	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	must	bade					here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	thief		thief			somewhere property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
3	examine	gerund	thief not said here				time		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	know	gerund	Ball and Carrier						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not escape	could	bade				now	possibly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wish	past	thief not said here					hastily property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	is	should	the Bad One					unable property	tree rules
8	eat	to-infinitive	the Bad One not said here	more food		present			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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