The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 10
It was after this that the fox came up, and he also was struck with the bear’s altered looks, and stopped.
Who acts: poh, this · What happens: be, come up, strike, alter, stop · To what, where: fox
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poh, this), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 this | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 this | cop |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 came | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 struck | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 struck | nsubj |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 struck | advmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 struck | aux:pass |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 looks | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bear | det |
| 18 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looks | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 bear | case |
| 20 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 looks | amod |
| 21 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 struck | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stopped | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stopped | cc |
| 24 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | poh | after this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | strike | past · passive | fox | with the bear's altered looks | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with look=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | alter | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | stop | past | this not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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