The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 137

Fylax was barking on the steps, and when he saw Little Lasse he wagged his tail.

Who acts: Fylax · What happens: bark, see, wag · To what, where: Little Lasse, tail

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fylax), 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	Fylax	Fylax	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 barking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 barking	aux
3	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 steps	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steps	det
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 barking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wagged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wagged	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wagged	advcl
12	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Lasse	amod
13	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wagged	nsubj
15	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 barking	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wagged	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 barking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bark	past · progressive	Fylax		on the steps	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	Fylax	Little Lasse		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lasse=Stimulus
3	wag	past	Fylax	Fylax's tail		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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 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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