The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 64
And the Wolf opened his jaws wide to swallow Blanchette.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: open, swallow · To what, where: jaws, Blanchette
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 opened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wolf | det |
| 3 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 4 opened | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 swallow | mark |
| 9 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 opened | advcl |
| 10 | Blanchette | Blanchette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 swallow | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the Wolf | child's jaws | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jaw=Theme | |||
| 2 | swallow | to-infinitive | the Wolf not said here | Blanchette | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanchette=Patient |
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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