The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 32
Thereupon the Wolf cuts across the wood, and in five minutes arrives at the Grandmother’s house.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: cut, arrive · To what, where: wood, house
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 cuts | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cuts | nsubj |
| 4 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cuts | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrives | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 arrives | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 minutes | case |
| 11 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 minutes | nummod |
| 12 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 arrives | obl |
| 13 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cuts | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Grandmother | det |
| 16 | Grandmother | Grandmother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Grandmother | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrives | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cuts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present | the Wolf | the wood | thereupon property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across wood=Location | |||
| 2 | arrive | present | the Wolf not said here | the Grandmother's house | minute | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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