The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 34

But directly she entered the room the man told her that he felt a great deal better, and that he would rather have a piece of bear’s flesh, well boiled, than any bird, however tender.

Who acts: girl, man · What happens: enter, tell, feel, have, boil · To what, where: room, girl, great deal, piece · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, man), 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	_	4 entered	cc
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	4 entered	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entered	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 felt	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 deal	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 deal	amod
16	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 felt	obj
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 deal	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 have	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	rather	rather	ADV	_	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 felt	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 piece	det
26	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 flesh	case
28	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flesh	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 bear	case
30	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 piece	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 boiled	punct
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 boiled	advmod
33	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 have	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bird	punct
35	than	than	ADP	_	37 bird	case
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 bird	det
37	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 boiled	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tender	punct
39	however	however	ADV	_	40 tender	advmod
40	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 boiled	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	girl	the room		directly property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	the man		girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	feel	past	man	a great deal			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme
4	have	would	man	a piece of bear's flesh			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
5	boil	participle				than any bird; well property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: 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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