The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 85
Was that the wolf which Walter was to take by the neck and shake and throw down on its back, no matter how much it struggled?
Who acts: wolf · What happens: be, shake, throw down, struggle · To what, where: back, much
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 (wolf), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 which | cop |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 which | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 which | nsubj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 6 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 which | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 take | mark |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 Walter | appos |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 neck | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 neck | det |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 take | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shake | cc |
| 14 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 throw | cc |
| 16 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 shake | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 throw | compound:prt |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 throw | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 matter | punct |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 matter | det |
| 23 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 back | appos |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 struggled | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 much | nsubj |
| 27 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 throw | advcl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 which | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | by the neck; take property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shake | infinitive | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | throw down | infinitive | neck's back | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on back=Destination | |||||
| 5 | struggle | participle · passive | much | 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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