The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 45
‘Who is there?’ says the Wolf, softening his rough voice as best he can.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: be, say, soften · To what, where: rough voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wolf | det |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 softening | punct |
| 11 | softening | soften | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 says | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 voice | nmod:poss |
| 13 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 softening | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 best | case |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 softening | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 can | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 best | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Wolf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | soften | gerund | the Wolf not said here | story's rough voice | tree rules |
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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