The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 165
Then there appeared, not a wolf, but a creature quite as wicked and quite as ugly.
What happens: appear · To what, where: wolf
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 appeared | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 appeared | expl |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wolf | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wolf | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wicked | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 wicked | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 creature | det |
| 11 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wicked | nsubj |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 wicked | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 wicked | advmod |
| 14 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appeared | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ugly | cc |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 ugly | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 ugly | advmod |
| 18 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wicked | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a wolf | there | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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