The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 7
The wolf’s jaw dropped in astonishment and terror.
Who acts: jaw · What happens: drop · To what, where: astonishment
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 (jaw), 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 | 4 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 wolf | case |
| 4 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | nsubj |
| 5 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 astonishment | case |
| 7 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dropped | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 terror | cc |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 astonishment | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | the wolf's jaw | astonishment and terror | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in astonishment=Trajectory |
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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