The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 66
Then the wolverine went up close, and struck the rock a blow with his paw, saying: “Well, will you catch me NOW?”
Who acts: wolverine, you · What happens: go up, strike, say, catch · To what, where: rock, wolverine · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolverine, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wolverine | det |
| 3 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 close | advmod |
| 6 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 struck | cc |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rock | det |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 blow | det |
| 13 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 paw | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 paw | nmod:poss |
| 16 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blow | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 struck | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 catch | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 catch | punct |
| 21 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 25 catch | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Well | punct |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 catch | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 catch | nsubj |
| 25 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 catch | obj |
| 27 | NOW | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 catch | advmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 catch | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the wolverine | then | close property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | strike | past | the wolverine not said here | the rock | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient blow=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | gerund | the wolverine not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | catch in a quote | future | you | the wolverine = wolverine | now | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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