The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 36
It was just opening its mouth to bark, when Niels fired, and it fell dead on the spot.
Who acts: dog, Niels · What happens: open, bark, fire, fall · To what, where: mouth, spot
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, Niels), 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 opening | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opening | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 opening | advmod |
| 4 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opening | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bark | mark |
| 8 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 opening | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fired | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 fired | advmod |
| 11 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fired | nsubj |
| 12 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opening | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fired | conj |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fell | xcomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 spot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · progressive | dog | dog's mouth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bark | to-infinitive | dog not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fire | past | Niels | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | dog | the spot | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on spot=Location |
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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