The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 39

The wool is indeed a sheep's wool, but the paws of my uncle the greyhound peep out from underneath.'

Who acts: wool, paws · What happens: be, peep out · To what, where: wool

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wool, paws), 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	2 wool	det
2	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wool	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wool	cop
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 wool	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wool	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sheep	case
8	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 peep	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 peep	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 paws	det
12	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 peep	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 uncle	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 uncle	nmod:poss
15	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paws	nmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 greyhound	det
17	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 uncle	nmod:unmarked
18	peep	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wool	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 peep	compound:prt
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 underneath	case
21	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	18 peep	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wool	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 wool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wool	a sheep's wool				indeed property	tree rules
2	peep out	infinitive	the paws of my uncle the greyhound						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from underneath=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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