The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 16
'Ah, traitor!' cried the wolf, howling with rage.
Who acts: traitor · What happens: cry, howl · To what, where: wolf
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 (traitor), 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 | _ | 4 traitor | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 traitor | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 traitor | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 traitor | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wolf | det |
| 9 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 howling | punct |
| 11 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 rage | case |
| 13 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 howling | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | traitor | the wolf | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | ||||
| 2 | howl | gerund | traitor not said here | with rage | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=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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