The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 11
The wolf looked up, and saw the bucket hanging there, and with some difficulty he climbed into it.
Who acts: wolf, bucket · What happens: look up, see, hang, climb · To what, where: bucket
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, bucket), 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 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bucket | det |
| 9 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bucket | acl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 hanging | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 climbed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 climbed | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 difficulty | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 difficulty | det |
| 16 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 climbed | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 climbed | nsubj |
| 18 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 climbed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | the wolf | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the bucket | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bucket=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | the bucket not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | climb | past | wolf | bucket | with some difficulty | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
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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