Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 23
The old, lone wolf leaped sideways, snarling, and slunk away.
Who acts: old lone wolf · What happens: leap, snarl, slink away · To what, where: old lone wolf
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old lone wolf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wolf | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 old | punct |
| 4 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wolf | amod |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 snarling | nsubj |
| 6 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wolf | acl |
| 7 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 6 leaped | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 snarling | punct |
| 9 | snarling | snarl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slunk | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 slunk | cc |
| 12 | slunk | slink | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 snarling | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 slunk | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 snarling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | participle | the old lone wolf not said here | sideways property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | snarl | gerund | the old lone wolf | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | slink away | past | the old lone wolf not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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