The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 98
The brave Wasp’s-nest rushes out with all his wasps.
Who acts: brave Wasp’s nest · What happens: rush out
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 (brave Wasp’s nest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nest | det |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nest | amod |
| 3 | Wasp’s | Wasp's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nest | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Wasp’s | punct |
| 5 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushes | nsubj |
| 6 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 rushes | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 wasps | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 wasps | det:predet |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wasps | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rushes | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | present | the brave Wasp’s nest | with Bs's wasps | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with wasp=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/31/98/