The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 115
Once in the spring, a little before Midsummer, Walter heard that there were a great many wolves in the wood, and that pleased him.
Who acts: Walter, great many wolves · What happens: hear, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Walter, great many wolves), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 heard | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spring | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spring | det |
| 4 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 little | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spring | appos |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 Midsummer | case |
| 9 | Midsummer | Midsummer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 little | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 11 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 were | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 were | expl |
| 15 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wolves | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wolves | amod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wolves | amod |
| 19 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 were | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wolves | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pleased | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pleased | cc |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 pleased | nsubj |
| 26 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heard | ccomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pleased | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Walter | once property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a great many wolves in the wood | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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