The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 60
Yes, sure enough, just then a shaggy, reddish-brown wolf’s head looked out from under the kiln!
Who acts: head · What happens: look out · To what, where: kiln
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 (head), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 sure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 sure | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 looked | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wolf | det |
| 9 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wolf | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shaggy | punct |
| 11 | reddish | reddish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brown | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 reddish | punct |
| 13 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wolf | amod |
| 14 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 wolf | case |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 kiln | case |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 kiln | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kiln | det |
| 22 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | a shaggy brown wolf's head | the kiln | then | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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