The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 13

‘It is the wolf that they talk so much about,’ he said to himself, and he made himself as small as he could and shrunk into a corner.

Who acts: animal, Toueno, Antoine · What happens: be, talk, say, make, shrink · To what, where: wolf, Antoine, corner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, Toueno, Antoine), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 wolf	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wolf	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wolf	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 talk	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talk	nsubj
8	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wolf	advcl
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 about	advmod
11	about	about	ADV	_	8 talk	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 wolf	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 made	obj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 small	advmod
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 made	xcomp
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 could	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 could	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 small	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shrunk	cc
29	shrunk	shrink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 made	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 corner	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 corner	det
32	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shrunk	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	animal	the wolf			tree rules
2	talk	present	Toueno			about property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Antoine		Antoine		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	make	past	Antoine	Antoine		small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product
5	shrink	participle	Antoine not said here			into a corner result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into corner=Result

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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