The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 40
Now that the squirrel, the marten, and the hare had all gone, the fox was the smallest of the three who were left, and the wolf and the bear explained that they were very sorry, but they would have to eat him.
Who acts: fox, wolf, couples · What happens: be, leave, explain, have, eat · To what, where: 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, couples), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 squirrel | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 squirrel | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 squirrel | det |
| 4 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 marten | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 marten | det |
| 7 | marten | marten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 squirrel | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gone | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gone | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hare | det |
| 11 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 gone | advmod |
| 14 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 squirrel | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smallest | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smallest | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 smallest | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 smallest | det |
| 20 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 gone | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 three | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 three | det |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 left | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 left | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 left | aux:pass |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 smallest | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 explained | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 explained | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wolf | det |
| 30 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 explained | nsubj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bear | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bear | det |
| 33 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wolf | conj |
| 34 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 left | parataxis |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 sorry | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 sorry | nsubj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 sorry | cop |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 sorry | advmod |
| 39 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 explained | ccomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 have | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 have | cc |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 have | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 have | aux |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 explained | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 eat | mark |
| 46 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 have | xcomp |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 eat | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 squirrel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fox | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | of the three | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of three=Destination | |||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | past | the wolf and the bear | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | couples = couple | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | would | couples = couple | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | couples = couple not said here | wolf | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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