The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 58
He knew very well what that meant; but he had taken his precautions and was not afraid.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: know, mean, take, not be · To what, where: precautions
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 well | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 knew | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 meant | nsubj |
| 7 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 taken | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taken | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 precautions | nmod:poss |
| 14 | precautions | precaution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taken | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 afraid | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 afraid | advmod |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 taken | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Wolf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | mean | past | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | Wolf | Wolf's precautions | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | Wolf not said here | afraid 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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