The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 103
How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves
Who acts: Brave Walter · What happens: hunt · To what, where: Wolves
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brave Walter), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 Brave | advmod |
| 2 | Brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Walter | amod |
| 3 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hunted | nsubj |
| 4 | Hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Hunted | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | Brave Walter | Wolves | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |
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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