The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 98
With his tail between his legs, the fox slunk into the forest.
Who acts: fox · What happens: slink · To what, where: forest
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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 tail | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tail | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slunk | obl |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 legs | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 legs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tail | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tail | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fox | det |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slunk | nsubj |
| 10 | slunk | slink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slunk | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 slunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slink | past | the fox | the forest | with fox's tail between fox's legs | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination |
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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