The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 117

And the wolf, understanding all that might happen if the fox carried out her threat, gave a signal to his companion to leap on the wall, where he immediately followed her.

Who acts: wolf, that, fox · What happens: understand, happen, carry out, give, leap, follow · To what, where: threat, signal, companion, wall, moon · 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 (wolf, that, fox), 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	_	5 understanding	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understanding	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 understanding	punct
5	understanding	understand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 happen	det:predet
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 happen	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 understanding	ccomp
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 carried	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fox	det
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	nsubj
13	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 carried	compound:prt
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 threat	nmod:poss
16	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carried	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 signal	det
20	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 companion	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 companion	nmod:poss
23	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 leap	mark
25	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 gave	advcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 wall	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wall	det
28	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leap	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 followed	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 followed	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 followed	nsubj
32	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	33 followed	advmod
33	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wall	acl:relcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 followed	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 understanding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	understand	gerund	the wolf					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	might	that					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	carry out a condition, not said to happen	past	the fox	moon's threat				vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threat=Eventuality
4	give	past	the fox not said here	a signal	Wolf's companion			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent signal=Theme to companion=Recipient
5	leap	to-infinitive	the fox not said here			the wall		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Trajectory
6	follow	past	Wolf	moon			immediately property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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