The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 42
The wolf and the bear agreed, and they turned out of the hollow where they had been walking, and chose a path that led up the mountain side.
Who acts: wolf, others, path · What happens: agree, turn out, walk, choose, lead up · To what, where: hollow, path, mountain side
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 (wolf, others, path), 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 | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bear | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wolf | conj |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agreed | parataxis |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 hollow | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hollow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hollow | det |
| 14 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 walking | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 walking | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 walking | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 walking | aux |
| 19 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 hollow | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 chose | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 chose | cc |
| 22 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 path | det |
| 24 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chose | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 led | nsubj |
| 26 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 path | acl:relcl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 led | compound:prt |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 side | det |
| 29 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 side | compound |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 led | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the wolf and the bear | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn out | past | others = other | the hollow | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hollow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | past · perfect · progressive | others = other | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | choose | past | others = other not said here | a path | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead up | past | a path | the mountain side | tree rules |
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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