The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 74
Then friend Fox, who was only waiting for these words, hastens out, throws himself on the wicked fowls, and quick! quack! he tears them to pieces; so much so that at the end of five minutes there was not one left alive.
Who acts: friend, wicked · What happens: wait, hasten out, throw, fowl, tear, leave · To what, where: end, friend, quick quack
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, wicked), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 hastens | advmod |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hastens | nsubj |
| 3 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 friend | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 waiting | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 waiting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waiting | aux |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 waiting | advmod |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 friend | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 words | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 words | det |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 waiting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 friend | punct |
| 13 | hastens | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 hastens | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 throws | punct |
| 16 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hastens | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 throws | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 wicked | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wicked | det |
| 20 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fowls | nsubj |
| 21 | fowls | fowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 throws | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 quack | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 quack | cc |
| 24 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 quack | amod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 quick | punct |
| 26 | quack | quack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tears | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 quack | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tears | nsubj |
| 29 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hastens | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 tears | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 pieces | case |
| 32 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 tears | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 end | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 much | advmod |
| 35 | much | much | ADV | _ | 40 end | advmod |
| 36 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 40 end | mark |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 end | mark |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 end | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 end | det |
| 40 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hastens | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 minutes | case |
| 42 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 minutes | nummod |
| 43 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 end | nmod |
| 44 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 45 was | expl |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 end | acl:relcl |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 one | advmod |
| 47 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 was | nsubj |
| 48 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 one | acl |
| 49 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 left | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hastens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | friend | for this words | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hasten out | present | friend | at the end of five minutes; then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | throw | present | friend not said here | friend | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fowl | present | the wicked | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tear | present | friend | quick quack | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=Result | |||
| 6 | leave | participle | alive property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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