The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 17
One day a smart young wolf went out to hunt, promising his grandfather and grandmother that he would be sure to be back before bedtime.
Who acts: smart young wolf, Wolf · What happens: go out, hunt, promise, be · To what, where: grandfather
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smart young wolf, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wolf | det |
| 4 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wolf | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wolf | amod |
| 6 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hunt | mark |
| 10 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 promising | punct |
| 12 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hunt | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 14 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 promising | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grandmother | cc |
| 16 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grandfather | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 sure | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sure | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 sure | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sure | cop |
| 21 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 promising | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 back | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 back | cop |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 sure | ccomp |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 bedtime | case |
| 26 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 back | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | a smart young wolf | day | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | a smart young wolf not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | gerund | a smart young wolf not said here | Wolf's grandfather and grandmother | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent grandfather=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | would | Wolf | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | Wolf not said here | before bedtime | back property | tree rules |
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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