The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 63
The fox's quick ears heard the sound of his paws, though they were soft as velvet, and turning her head she said politely:
Who acts: quick ears, ears, village · What happens: hear, be, turn, say · To what, where: sound, head · 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 (quick ears, ears, village), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ears | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 fox | case |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ears | amod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 paws | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 paws | nmod:poss |
| 11 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sound | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 soft | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 soft | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 soft | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 soft | cop |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heard | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 velvet | case |
| 18 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 soft | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turning | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turning | cc |
| 21 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 heard | parataxis |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turning | obj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 turning | conj |
| 26 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 25 said | advmod |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the fox's quick ears | the sound of Wolf's paws | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | ears = ear | as velvet; soft property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | village's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | village | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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