The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Crane, sentence 11

"What!" snarled the Wolf, whirling around. "

What happens: snarl, whirl around · To what, where: Wolf

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	5 snarled	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 snarled	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
5	snarled	snarl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Wolf	det
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 snarled	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whirling	punct
9	whirling	whirl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 snarled	advcl
10	around	around	ADV	_	9 whirling	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 snarled	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 snarled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snarl	past		the Wolf					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme
2	whirl around	gerund						around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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