The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 62

Then the Bad One knew what had happened, and after telling the water demons that there would be no feast after all, he called to Ball-Carrier, who was eating an apple.

Who acts: Bad One, feast, Ball · What happens: know, happen, tell, call, eat · To what, where: water demons, Ball, apple · 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 (Bad One, feast, Ball), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 knew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 One	det
3	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 One	amod
4	One	One	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happened	aux
8	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 knew	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 called	cc
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 telling	mark
12	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 called	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 demons	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 demons	compound
15	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 telling	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 be	nsubj
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 be	expl
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 be	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 demons	acl:relcl
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 feast	det
21	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 be	nsubj
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 feast	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 telling	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 called	nsubj
26	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 Ball	case
28	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 called	obl
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Carrier	punct
30	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Ball	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 eating	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 eating	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 eating	aux
34	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 Ball	acl:relcl
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 apple	det
36	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eating	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	know	past	the Bad One			then	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	feast not said here		the water demons		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent demon=Recipient
4	call	past	feast		Ball and Carrier		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ball=Recipient
5	eat	past · progressive	Ball and Carrier	a apple			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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