The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 12
The wolf stood still for a few minutes, for he was trembling all over, and then crept quietly back to his cave.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: stand, tremble, creep back · To what, where: cave
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 minutes | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minutes | amod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trembling | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 trembling | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trembling | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 trembling | aux |
| 13 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 over | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 trembling | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crept | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 crept | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 crept | advmod |
| 19 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 20 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 19 crept | advmod |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 crept | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 cave | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 cave | nmod:poss |
| 24 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crept | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the wolf | still; minute | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tremble | past · progressive | wolf | over property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | creep back | past | wolf's cave | then | quietly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cave=Destination |
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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