The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 53

They fancied they heard on every side of them the howling of wolves coming to eat them up.

Who acts: birds, wolves · What happens: fancy, hear, come, eat up, howl · To what, where: howling, side, birds

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, wolves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:2514): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fancied	ccomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 side	det
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 side	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 howling	det
11	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 wolves	case
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 howling	nmod
14	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 wolves	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 eat	mark
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 coming	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eat	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 eat	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fancied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fancy	past	birds = bird			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	hear	past	birds = bird	the howling of wolves	every side of folks	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer howling=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	wolves not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat up	to-infinitive	wolves not said here	birds = bird		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	howl		wolves			nom howling «communication intransitive»: of=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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