The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 56
Now, while these thoughts were running through the mind of the wolf, the very fox he had been thinking of was galloping along the other road.
Who acts: thoughts, Wolf, fox · What happens: run, think, gallop, mind · To what, where: mind, fox, other road, wolf
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 (thoughts, Wolf, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 galloping | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 running | mark |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 thoughts | det |
| 5 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 running | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 running | aux |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 galloping | advcl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mind | det |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 running | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wolf | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mind | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 running | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 fox | advmod |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 galloping | nsubj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thinking | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 thinking | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 thinking | aux |
| 21 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 fox | acl:relcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 thinking | obl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 galloping | aux |
| 24 | galloping | gallop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 25 | along | along | ADP | _ | 28 road | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 road | amod |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 galloping | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 galloping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | this thoughts | the mind of the wolf | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mind=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · perfect · progressive | Wolf | the fox not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fox=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gallop | past · progressive | the fox | the other road | now | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | mind | the wolf | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/6/56/