The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 67
Behind him followed a great dog, which looked stronger than any wolf, or even a bear.
Who acts: man, great dog · What happens: follow, look · To what, where: great dog
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, great dog), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 followed | mark |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dog | amod |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dog | acl:relcl |
| 10 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 looked | xcomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 wolf | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stronger | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bear | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 bear | cc |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 bear | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bear | det |
| 18 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | man | a great dog | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | a great dog | strong property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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