The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 13

As soon as he understood what was happening, the wolf began to speak like an angry wolf, but was a little comforted when he remembered that the cheese still remained to him.

Who acts: fox, wolf, cheese · What happens: understand, happen, begin, speak, comfort, remember · To what, where: little, wolf · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fox, wolf, cheese), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 understood	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 understood	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 understood	nsubj
5	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happening	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happening	aux
8	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 understood	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 understood	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 speak	mark
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 wolf	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wolf	det
17	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wolf	amod
18	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 speak	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 comforted	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 comforted	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 comforted	aux:pass
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 little	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 comforted	obl:unmarked
24	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 began	conj
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 remembered	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 remembered	nsubj
27	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 comforted	advcl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 remained	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cheese	det
30	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 remained	nsubj
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 remained	advmod
32	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 remembered	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 remained	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	fox				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	past · progressive						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the wolf					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	the wolf not said here				like a angry wolf	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	comfort	past · passive	the wolf not said here	a little				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
6	remember	past	wolf					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	remain	past	the cheese		wolf	still		vn exist-47.1 «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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