The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 74
Quickly she opens her sack wide across the door, and the maddened Wolf springs in head downwards.
Who acts: brigand · What happens: open, madden · To what, where: sack, 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 (brigand), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 opens | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opens | nsubj |
| 3 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sack | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opens | obj |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 3 opens | advmod |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opens | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 springs | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 springs | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 springs | det |
| 13 | maddened | madden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 springs | amod |
| 14 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 springs | compound |
| 15 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 opens | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 springs | nmod |
| 18 | downwards | downwards | ADV | _ | 3 opens | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | brigand | brigand's sack | the door | spring | downwards, quickly, wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | |
| 2 | madden | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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