The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 85
He was about to go off with these angry words when a sudden growl was heard, and a black bear trotted out of the wood.
Who acts: man, black bear · What happens: be, go off, hear, trot out · To what, where: sudden growl, wood
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, black bear), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 about | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 go | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 words | det |
| 9 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 heard | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 growl | det |
| 13 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 growl | amod |
| 14 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux:pass |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 go | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 trotted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 trotted | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bear | det |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bear | amod |
| 21 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trotted | nsubj |
| 22 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 wood | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wood | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wood | det |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trotted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go off | to-infinitive | man not said here | with this angry words | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | a sudden growl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | trot out | past | a black bear | the wood | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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