The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 40

But before he got there he met a huge creature on four legs, which he afterwards knew to be a dog, who stood and gazed at him with a long red tongue hanging out of his mouth.

Who acts: firing, dog, long red tongue · What happens: get, meet, know, be, stand, gaze · To what, where: huge creature, four legs, dog, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (firing, dog, long red tongue), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 met	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 got	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 met	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 got	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 met	nsubj
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 creature	det
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 creature	amod
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 legs	case
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 legs	nummod
13	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 met	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 knew	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	18 knew	advmod
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 legs	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	22 dog	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 dog	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dog	det
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knew	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 stood	nsubj
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dog	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gazed	cc
27	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stood	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gazed	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	34 tongue	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 tongue	det
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tongue	amod
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tongue	amod
34	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gazed	obl
35	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 tongue	acl
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 mouth	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 mouth	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mouth	nmod:poss
39	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hanging	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	firing		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	meet	past	firing	a huge creature	four legs		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Co-Agent
3	know	past	firing	four legs		afterwards property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
4	is a	to-infinitive		a dog			tree rules
5	stand	past	a dog				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	gaze	past	a dog not said here			at firing; with a long red tongue	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
7	hang out	gerund	a long red tongue not said here	firing's mouth			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient

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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