The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 76
'That we shall soon see,' cried the wolf, opening his huge mouth and crouching for a spring.
Who acts: we · What happens: see, cry, open, crouch · To what, where: That, wolf, huge mouth
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 (we), 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 | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 see | obj |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 see | advmod |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wolf | det |
| 11 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 opening | punct |
| 13 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mouth | amod |
| 16 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opening | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crouching | cc |
| 18 | crouching | crouch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 opening | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 spring | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 spring | det |
| 21 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crouching | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | shall | we | That | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | we not said here | the wolf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | ||||
| 3 | open | gerund | we not said here | Wolf's huge mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | crouch | gerund | we not said here | spring | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=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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