The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 78

And the wolves separated them while he gave a series of little springs, sometime pirouetting while he stood with one foot on the prow of both. '

Who acts: wolves, Wolf · What happens: separate, give, pirouette, stand · To what, where: Mink, series, prow

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 (wolves, 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 separated	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolves	det
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 separated	nsubj
4	separated	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 separated	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 gave	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 separated	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 series	det
10	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 springs	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 springs	amod
13	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 series	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pirouetting	punct
15	sometime	sometime	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 pirouetting	advmod
16	pirouetting	pirouette	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 separated	advcl
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 stood	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pirouetting	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 foot	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 foot	nummod
22	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 prow	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 prow	det
25	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 both	case
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 prow	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 pirouetting	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 pirouetting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	separate	past	the wolves	Mink			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	give	past	Wolf	a series of little springs			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent series=Theme
3	pirouette	gerund	the wolves not said here			sometime property	vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past	Wolf		the prow of both	with one foot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on prow=Location

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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