The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 124

'Never!' answered the wolf, peering over in his turn, his eyes glistening greedily, for he imagined that the moon's reflection in the water was really a cheese.

Who acts: eyes, Wolf, reflection · What happens: not answer, peer over, glisten, imagine, be · To what, where: wolf, cheese

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 (eyes, Wolf, reflection), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 answered	advmod
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Never	punct
4	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 peering	punct
9	peering	peer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 answered	advcl
10	over	over	ADV	_	9 peering	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 turn	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 turn	nmod:poss
13	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peering	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eyes	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turn	conj
17	glistening	glisten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 eyes	acl
18	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	17 glistening	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 imagined	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 imagined	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 imagined	nsubj
22	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 cheese	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moon	det
25	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reflection	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 moon	case
27	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cheese	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 water	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reflection	nmod
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cheese	cop
32	really	really	ADV	_	34 cheese	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cheese	det
34	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 imagined	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past		the wolf		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality
2	peer over	gerund			in Wolf's turn and Wolf's eyes; over property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in turn=Theme
3	glisten	gerund	Wolf's eyes not said here		greedily property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	imagine	past	Wolf			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a	past	the moon's reflection in the water	a cheese		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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