The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 80

And he called, and called, and called, till wolves and foxes and all sorts of other creatures all came running to see what was the matter.

Who acts: Wolverine, sorts · What happens: call, come, run, see, be, sort · To what, where: wolves, matter, other creatures · 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, sorts), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 called	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 called	cc
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 called	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 called	cc
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 called	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wolves	punct
11	till	till	ADP	_	12 wolves	case
12	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 called	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 foxes	cc
14	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wolves	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 sorts	det
17	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 creatures	case
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 creatures	amod
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sorts	nmod
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
23	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 came	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 running	xcomp
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 matter	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 matter	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 matter	det
29	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	Wolverine			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call	participle	Wolverine not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle	Wolverine not said here	wolves and foxes		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	all sorts of other creatures		all property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	gerund	all sorts of other creatures not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	see	to-infinitive	all sorts of other creatures not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past		the matter		tree rules
8	sort			other creatures		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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