The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 82
And through the wolves, whose howls had now changed into those of rage, sought him everywhere, they never found him, for he hid behind a rock till they were out of sight, and then made his home in another forest.
Who acts: howls, Wolf · What happens: change, seek, not find, hide, be, make · To what, where: howls, wolves, Wolf, rock, sight, home
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 (howls, 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 | _ | 16 sought | cc |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 wolves | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolves | det |
| 4 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sought | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 changed | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 howls | nmod:poss |
| 7 | howls | howl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 changed | aux |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 changed | advmod |
| 10 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wolves | acl:relcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 those | case |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 changed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rage | case |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 those | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wolves | punct |
| 16 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sought | obj |
| 18 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 sought | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 found | advmod |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sought | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hid | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 hid | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hid | nsubj |
| 27 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | conj |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 30 rock | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 rock | det |
| 30 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hid | obl |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 36 sight | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 sight | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 sight | cop |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 sight | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 sight | case |
| 36 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hid | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 made | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 made | cc |
| 39 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 made | advmod |
| 40 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sought | conj |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 home | nmod:poss |
| 42 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 made | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 forest | case |
| 44 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 forest | det |
| 45 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 made | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · perfect · passive | howls | the wolves | now | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into that=Result | |||
| 2 | seek | past | Wolf | the wolves | everywhere property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through wolf=Location | |||
| 3 | not find | past | howls = howl | Wolf | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | Wolf | a rock | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind rock=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | howls = howl | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | past | Wolf's home | another forest | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product |
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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