The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 42
Very soon he came quite close to the kiln, where the wolves had killed the ram.
Who acts: Walter · What happens: come, kill · To what, where: wolves
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 close | advmod |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 kiln | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kiln | det |
| 9 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 killed | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wolves | det |
| 13 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 kiln | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ram | det |
| 17 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Walter | close, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the wolves | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer ram=Result |
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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