The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 60

However, he entered boldly, and as soon as he was fairly inside the door was shut with a bang, and the whole herd sprang at him, with their red tongues hanging out of their mouths.

Who acts: Wolf, whole herd, red tongues · What happens: enter, be, shut, spring, hang out · To what, where: door, mouths

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, whole herd, red tongues), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 entered	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 entered	nsubj
4	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 entered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shut	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shut	cc
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 soon	advmod
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 door	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 door	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 door	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 door	cop
13	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	16 door	advmod
14	inside	inside	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shut	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shut	aux:pass
18	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 entered	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 bang	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bang	det
21	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shut	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sprang	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sprang	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 herd	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 herd	amod
26	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sprang	nsubj
27	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 entered	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sprang	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tongues	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 tongues	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 tongues	nmod:poss
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tongues	amod
34	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sprang	obl
35	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 tongues	acl
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 mouths	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 mouths	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mouths	nmod:poss
39	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hanging	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Wolf			boldly, however property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Wolf		the door	fairly, soon property	tree rules
3	shut	past · passive		the door		with a bang	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with bang=Instrument
4	spring	past	the whole herd			at Wolf; with Mink's red tongues	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory
5	hang out	gerund	Mink's red tongues not said here	Mink's mouths			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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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