The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 111
But if the wolf could not run he could jump, and with one bound he was beside his companion.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: not run, jump, be · To what, where: companion
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 jump | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 run | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 run | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 run | advmod |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 jump | csubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 jump | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 jump | aux |
| 10 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 companion | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 companion | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bound | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bound | nummod |
| 15 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 companion | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 companion | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 companion | cop |
| 18 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 companion | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 companion | nmod:poss |
| 20 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jump | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jump | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run a condition, not said to happen | could | the wolf | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | jump | could | Wolf | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Wolf | Wolf's companion | with one bound | tree rules |
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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