The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 102

The wolf and the fox crept softly along, when suddenly they stopped and looked at each other; a savoury smell of frying bacon reached their noses, and reached the noses of the sleeping dogs, who began to bark greedily.

Who acts: wolf, Fox, savoury smell, sleeping dogs · What happens: creep, stop, look, fry, reach, begin · To what, where: bacon, noses

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, Fox, savoury smell, sleeping dogs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crept	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fox	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wolf	conj
6	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	softly	softly	ADV	_	6 crept	advmod
8	along	along	ADV	_	6 crept	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopped	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 stopped	advmod
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 stopped	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stopped	nsubj
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crept	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stopped	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 each	case
17	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	15 looked	obl
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 each	fixed
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 reached	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 smell	det
21	savoury	savoury	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 smell	amod
22	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	nsubj
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 frying	mark
24	frying	fry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 smell	acl
25	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 frying	obj
26	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crept	parataxis
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 noses	nmod:poss
28	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 reached	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reached	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 reached	cc
31	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 reached	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 noses	det
33	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 reached	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 dogs	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dogs	det
36	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dogs	compound
37	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 noses	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 began	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 began	nsubj
40	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dogs	acl:relcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 bark	mark
42	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 began	xcomp
43	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	42 bark	advmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	creep	past	the wolf and the fox		along, softly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	Fox		suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	look	past	Fox not said here		at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
4	fry	gerund	a savoury smell not said here	bacon		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bacon=Patient
5	reach	past	a savoury smell	Fox's noses		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
6	reach	past	a savoury smell not said here	the noses of the sleeping dogs		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nose=Theme
7	begin	past	the sleeping dogs			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	bark	to-infinitive	the sleeping dogs not said here		greedily property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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