The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 76

Suddenly he heard fierce howls, and a dog as tall as a donkey, with eyes like billiard balls, came towards him, showing his teeth, which were like the prongs of a fork.

Who acts: Prince, teeth · What happens: hear, come, show, be · To what, where: fierce howls, teeth

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: who acts (Prince, teeth), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 howls	amod
5	howls	howl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tall	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tall	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tall	nsubj
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 tall	advmod
11	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	parataxis
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 donkey	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 donkey	det
14	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tall	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 eyes	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	obl
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 balls	case
19	billiard	billiard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 balls	compound
20	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 eyes	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
23	towards	towards	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 showing	punct
26	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 came	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 teeth	nmod:poss
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 showing	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 prongs	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 prongs	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 prongs	cop
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 prongs	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 prongs	det
34	prongs	prong	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 teeth	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 fork	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 fork	det
37	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 prongs	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Prince	fierce howls	with eyes like billiard balls; suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer howl=Stimulus
2	come	past	Prince not said here		towards Prince	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location
3	show	gerund	Prince not said here	Prince's teeth and the prongs		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient
4	is	past	Prince's teeth and the prongs		like the prongs; of a fork	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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