The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 44
The wolf shot him in the thigh, and the sign of his arrow still remains; and so with the mouse and the viper and all the rest, even the frog; and at the last the reindeer all died.
Who acts: wolf, sign, reindeer · What happens: shoot, remain, die, sign · To what, where: fox, thigh, arrow
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, sign, reindeer), 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 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shot | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 thigh | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thigh | det |
| 7 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shot | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remains | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 remains | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sign | det |
| 11 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remains | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 arrow | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sign | nmod |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 remains | advmod |
| 16 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | parataxis |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 so | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 so | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 remains | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 mouse | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mouse | det |
| 22 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 so | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 viper | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 viper | det |
| 25 | viper | viper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mouse | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 rest | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 rest | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rest | det |
| 29 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mouse | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 frog | punct |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 frog | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 frog | det |
| 33 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mouse | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 last | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 last | cc |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 last | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 last | det |
| 38 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 remains | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 reindeer | det |
| 40 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 died | nsubj |
| 41 | all | all | ADV | _ | 42 died | advmod |
| 42 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 last | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | the wolf | fox | the thigh | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in thigh=Destination | |||
| 2 | remain | present | the sign of fox's arrow | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | past | the reindeer | all property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | sign | fox's arrow | nom sign «communication 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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