The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 71

So there was the Wolf with his throat burnt, jumping off the bed and trying to find the door, howling and howling as if all the dogs in the country were at his heels.

Who acts: dogs · What happens: be, jump off, try, find, howl · To what, where: bed, door

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 (dogs), 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	So	so	ADV	_	9 burnt	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 So	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wolf	det
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 burnt	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 throat	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 throat	nmod:poss
8	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Wolf	nmod
9	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jumping	punct
11	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 burnt	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bed	det
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jumping	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 trying	cc
16	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 jumping	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 trying	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 howling	punct
22	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 jumping	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 howling	cc
24	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 howling	conj
25	as	as	ADP	_	36 heels	case
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 heels	mark
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 dogs	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dogs	det
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 heels	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 country	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 country	det
32	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dogs	nmod
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 heels	cop
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 heels	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 heels	nmod:poss
36	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 howling	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 burnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			so property	tree rules
2	jump off	gerund		the bed		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory
3	try	gerund				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	find not said to happen	to-infinitive		the door		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic
5	howl	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	howl	gerund				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	all dogs in the country		as story's heels	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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