The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 53

Really it seems as if there was not a living creature left for me to prey upon but a wolf, and, as the proverb says: "One wolf does not bite another."

Who acts: it, proverb, One wolf · What happens: seem, live, not be, leave, say, not bite · To what, where: living creature, another · 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 (it, proverb, One 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	Really	really	ADV	_	3 seems	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 creature	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 was	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 creature	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 creature	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 creature	det
10	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 creature	amod
11	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seems	ccomp
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 creature	acl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 left	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 prey	mark
16	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	advcl
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 left	obl
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 wolf	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wolf	det
20	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 creature	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 says	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 says	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 says	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 says	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 proverb	det
26	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 says	nsubj
27	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seems	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 bite	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 bite	punct
30	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 wolf	nummod
31	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bite	nsubj
32	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 bite	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 bite	advmod
34	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 says	ccomp
35	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 bite	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 bite	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 bite	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	live	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a	past		a living creature but a wolf		tree rules
4	leave	participle		a living creature but a wolf not said here	for me	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for i=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	present	the proverb			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not bite in a quote	present · do-support	One wolf	another		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient

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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