The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 25

So the wolf, who was always hungry, began to eat the eggs greedily; and when he had finished he told the mink he thought he would have a nap.

Who acts: wolf · What happens: be, begin, eat, finish, tell, think · To what, where: eggs, mink, nap · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	10 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hungry	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hungry	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 hungry	advmod
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wolf	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wolf	punct
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eggs	det
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	obj
15	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	12 eat	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 finished	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 finished	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 finished	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 finished	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 finished	aux
21	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 began	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 finished	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mink	det
25	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 mink	acl:relcl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thought	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 nap	det
32	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wolf			always, hungry property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the wolf				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	eat	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here	the eggs		greedily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
4	finish	past · perfect	Wolf				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	past	Wolf		the mink		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mink=Recipient
6	think speech: other	past	Wolf	the mink not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent mink=Attribute clause=Theme
7	have	would	Wolf	a nap			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient

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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