The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 50
‘Ahem! a little, a little...’ replies the Wolf, pretending to cough.
Who acts: Ahem · What happens: reply, pretend, cough · To what, where: Wolf
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 (Ahem), 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 | _ | 2 Ahem | punct |
| 2 | Ahem | ahem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replies | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahem | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Ahem | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 little | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Ahem | conj |
| 9 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahem | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahem | punct |
| 11 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Wolf | det |
| 13 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replies | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pretending | punct |
| 15 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 replies | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 cough | mark |
| 17 | cough | cough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pretending | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | present | Ahem | the Wolf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pretend | gerund | Ahem not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cough | to-infinitive | Ahem not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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