The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 16

He remembered to have heard from his mother that a wolf could neither bend his back nor turn his head, so as to look behind him, and quick as lightning he stretched up his hand, and seizing the wolf’s tail, pulled it towards him.

Who acts: Antoine · What happens: remember, hear, bend, turn, look, stretch up · To what, where: back, head, hand, tail, wolf · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 heard	mark
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	aux
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 bend	advcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mother	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 could	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bend	aux
13	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 bend	cc:preconj
14	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remembered	ccomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 back	nmod:poss
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bend	obj
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 turn	cc
18	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bend	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turn	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 look	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 look	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 look	mark
24	to	to	PART	_	25 look	mark
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 bend	conj
26	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 look	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stretched	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stretched	cc
30	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lightning	case
31	as	as	ADP	_	30 quick	fixed
32	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stretched	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stretched	nsubj
34	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembered	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 stretched	compound:prt
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hand	nmod:poss
37	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stretched	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 seizing	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 seizing	cc
40	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 remembered	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wolf	det
42	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tail	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 wolf	case
44	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 seizing	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 pulled	punct
46	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembered	parataxis
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 pulled	obj
48	towards	towards	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 pulled	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Antoine			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hear	to-infinitive · perfect			from Antoine's mother	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from mother=Source
3	bend	could		Antoine's back		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent back=Material
4	turn	infinitive		Antoine's head		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	look	to-infinitive			behind Antoine	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind he=Theme
6	stretch up	past	Antoine	Antoine's hand	quick lightning	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
7	seize	gerund	Antoine not said here	the wolf's tail		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
8	pull	past		wolf	towards Antoine	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme towards he=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 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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