The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 54
In the meantime the Wolf had pulled and bitten and scratched at the stone, till at last he succeeded in getting his paws out.
Who acts: Wolf, musician · What happens: pull, bite, scratch, succeed, get out · To what, where: meantime, paws
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, musician), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Wolf | det |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pulled | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pulled | aux |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bitten | cc |
| 9 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 pulled | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 scratched | cc |
| 11 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 pulled | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scratched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 succeeded | punct |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 succeeded | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 succeeded | nsubj |
| 20 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pulled | conj |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 getting | mark |
| 22 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 succeeded | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 paws | nmod:poss |
| 24 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 getting | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 getting | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past · perfect | the Wolf | the meantime | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bite | participle | the Wolf not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scratch | participle | the Wolf not said here | at the stone | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at stone=Patient | ||||
| 4 | succeed | past | musician | till last | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | get out | gerund | musician not said here | musician's paws | out property | 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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