The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 114

'I think if I were to take a bit out of your haunch you would jump better,' said the wolf, giving a snap at her as he spoke.

Who acts: I, you, Wolf · What happens: think, take, jump, say, give, speak · To what, where: bit, wolf, snap · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, you, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 take	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 think	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	17 jump	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 haunch	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 haunch	nmod:poss
14	haunch	haunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jump	obl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 jump	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 jump	aux
17	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 take	advcl
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 jump	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wolf	det
23	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 giving	punct
25	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 said	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 snap	det
27	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 giving	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 giving	obl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 spoke	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 spoke	nsubj
32	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 giving	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	take a condition, not said to happen	past	I	a bit		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
3	jump	would	you		of your haunch; good property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of haunch=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	past	I not said here	the wolf		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
5	give	gerund	I not said here	a snap	at moon	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent snap=Theme at she=Asset
6	speak speech: other	past	Wolf			vn talk-37.5 «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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