The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 27
And the wolf did as he was bid, and was soon fast asleep.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: do, bid, be · To what, where: Wolf
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 bid | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bid | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bid | aux:pass |
| 8 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 did | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asleep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asleep | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asleep | cop |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 asleep | advmod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 asleep | advmod |
| 14 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the wolf | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | Wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the wolf not said here | asleep, fast, soon 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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