The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 127
As soon as they came to the wood Walter looked cautiously around him to see perchance there was a wolf in the bushes, and he did not omit to ask Jonas if wolves were afraid of a drum.
Who acts: ears, Walter, wolves · What happens: come, look, see, not omit, ask, be · To what, where: wood, perchance, Jonas
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 (ears, Walter, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 looked | advcl |
| 16 | perchance | perchance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 perchance | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wolf | det |
| 20 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bushes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bushes | det |
| 23 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wolf | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 omit | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 omit | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 omit | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 omit | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 omit | advmod |
| 29 | omit | omit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 ask | mark |
| 31 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 omit | xcomp |
| 32 | Jonas | Jonas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 ask | obj |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 afraid | mark |
| 34 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 afraid | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 afraid | cop |
| 36 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ask | advcl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 drum | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 drum | det |
| 39 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 afraid | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | ears = ear | the wood | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | past | Walter | around Caro; cautiously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Walter not said here | perchance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer perchance=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not omit | past · do-support | Walter | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Walter not said here | Jonas | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jonas=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | wolves | of a drum; afraid property | tree rules |
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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