The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 24

Very likely the wolf, who was cunning and clever, may have understood what she said, but he thought it best to give no sign, and suffered the skin to be sewn upon him.

Who acts: wolf, idea, ram · What happens: cunn, understand, say, think, give, suffer · To what, where: wolf, sign, skin · 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 (wolf, idea, ram), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 likely	advmod
2	likely	likely	ADV	_	14 understood	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 understood	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cunning	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cunning	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cunning	aux
8	cunning	cunn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wolf	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 clever	cc
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cunning	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wolf	punct
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 understood	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 understood	aux
14	understood	understand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 understood	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 understood	parataxis
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 best	expl
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 thought	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 give	mark
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	ccomp
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 sign	det
27	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 suffered	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 suffered	cc
30	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 thought	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 skin	det
32	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 suffered	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 sewn	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 sewn	aux:pass
35	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 suffered	advcl
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sewn	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 understood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cunn	past · progressive	the wolf			tree rules
2	understand	may · perfect · passive		the wolf	likely property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	idea			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past	ram			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	give	to-infinitive		no sign		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
6	suffer	past	ram not said here	the skin		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skin=Stimulus
7	sew	to-infinitive · passive	ram not said here		upon ram	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: upon 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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