The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 21

The Holy Man did not answer, but went into an inner cave, from which he came out bearing something in his hand.

Who acts: Holy Man, Care · What happens: not answer, go, come out, bear · To what, where: inner cave, something, hand

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Holy Man, Care), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
2	Holy	Holy	PROPN	_	3 Man	compound
3	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answer	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 answer	advmod
6	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 answer	parataxis
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 cave	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cave	det
12	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cave	amod
13	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 came	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 bearing	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 hand	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hand	nmod:poss
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bearing	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	the Holy Man				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past			a inner cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location
3	come out	past	Care			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	bear	gerund	Care not said here	something	Care's hand		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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