The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 118
Meanwhile the fox had met with a huge herd of pigs, snuffling about the roots of some trees.
Who acts: fox · What happens: meet, snuffle
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 (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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | aux |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 herd | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 herd | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 herd | amod |
| 9 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pigs | case |
| 11 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 herd | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 snuffling | punct |
| 13 | snuffling | snuffle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 met | advcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 roots | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roots | det |
| 16 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 snuffling | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 trees | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 trees | det |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 roots | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect | the fox | with a huge herd of pigs; meanwhile property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with herd=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | snuffle | gerund | the fox not said here | about the roots of some trees | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about root=Topic |
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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