The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 44
This simple question seemed to put out the wolf very much.
Who acts: simple question · What happens: seem, put out · To what, where: wolf
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 (simple question), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 question | det |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 question | amod |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 put | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wolf | det |
| 9 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | this simple question | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | put out | to-infinitive | this simple question not said here | the wolf | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wolf=Goal |
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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