The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 35

It was no ram that lay curled up in the corner pretending to be asleep (for in reality he could bend back and turn his head as much as he liked), but a wolf who was watching him out of the corner of his eye, and might spring upon him at any moment.

Who acts: truth, ram, wolf · What happens: be, curl up, pretend, bend back, turn, like · To what, where: ram, corner, head

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 (truth, ram, wolf), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ram	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ram	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 ram	det
4	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 curled	nsubj:pass
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 curled	aux:pass
7	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ram	acl:relcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 curled	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 corner	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corner	det
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 curled	obl
12	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 curled	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 asleep	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 asleep	cop
15	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pretending	xcomp
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 bend	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 reality	case
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 reality	case
19	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bend	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bend	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 bend	aux
22	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asleep	parataxis
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 bend	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 turn	cc
25	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bend	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turn	obj
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 turn	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 liked	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 liked	nsubj
32	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 much	advcl
33	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 liked	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 watching	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 watching	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 wolf	det
37	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 watching	nsubj
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 watching	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 watching	aux
40	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ram	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 watching	obj
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 corner	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 corner	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 corner	det
45	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 watching	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 eye	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 eye	nmod:poss
48	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 corner	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 spring	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 spring	cc
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 spring	aux
52	spring	spring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 ram	parataxis
53	upon	upon	ADP	_	54 him	case
54	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 spring	obl
55	at	at	ADP	_	57 moment	case
56	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	57 moment	det
57	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 spring	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ram	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	truth	no ram				tree rules
2	curl up	past · passive		no ram	the corner			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	pretend	gerund						tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive					asleep property	tree rules
5	bend back	could	ram				for reality	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	turn	infinitive	ram not said here	ram's head				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
7	like	past	ram					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	watch	past · progressive	a wolf	ram	the corner of ram's eye			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	spring	might				moment	upon ram	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=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 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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