The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 2
So the wolf broke forth in his song of lament: “Hu, hu, hu, hum, hoh,” he shouted, and he made such a noise that the bear put up his paws to his ears, and begged him to stop.
Who acts: wolf, bear, lament · What happens: break, shout, make, put up, beg, stop · To what, where: Hu, song, hoh, noise, paws, bear
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 (wolf, bear, lament), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 broke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 broke | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 song | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 song | nmod:poss |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lament | case |
| 10 | lament | lament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 song | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hu | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hu | punct |
| 13 | Hu | Hu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hu | punct |
| 15 | hu | Hu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hu | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hu | punct |
| 17 | hu | Hu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Hu | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hum | punct |
| 19 | hum | hum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Hu | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hoh | punct |
| 21 | hoh | hoh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Hu | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hoh | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 hoh | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shouted | nsubj |
| 25 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hoh | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 made | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 made | nsubj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | conj |
| 30 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 noise | det:predet |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 noise | det |
| 32 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | obj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 put | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bear | det |
| 35 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 put | nsubj |
| 36 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 made | advcl |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 put | compound:prt |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 paws | nmod:poss |
| 39 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 put | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 ears | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 ears | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 put | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 begged | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 begged | cc |
| 45 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 broke | conj |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 begged | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 stop | mark |
| 48 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 begged | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the wolf | Hu and hu and hu and hum | wolf's song of lament | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in song=Location | ||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | wolf | hoh not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoh=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | past | wolf | such noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product | ||||
| 4 | put up | past | the bear | bear's paws | to bear's ears | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent paw=Goal | |||
| 5 | beg speech: request | past | the wolf not said here | bear | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | sing | lament | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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