The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 102
He had hardly left his comfortable cave when he had come across the wolf, who inquired where he was going.
Who acts: fox, wolf · What happens: leave, come, inquire, go · To what, where: comfortable cave, wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, wolf), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cave | nmod:poss |
| 6 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cave | amod |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 come | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 left | advcl |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 wolf | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wolf | det |
| 14 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 inquired | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 inquired | nsubj |
| 17 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wolf | acl:relcl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 going | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 inquired | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | fox | fox's comfortable cave | hardly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | fox | the wolf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across wolf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | the wolf | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | fox | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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