The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 58
The Wolf pulled the branches down, bit the cord in two, and set the Fox free.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: pull down, bite, set · To what, where: branches, cord, two, Fox
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 branches | det |
| 5 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pulled | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bit | punct |
| 8 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cord | det |
| 10 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bit | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 two | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 bit | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pulled | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fox | det |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 set | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull down | past | the Wolf | the branches | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bite | past | the cord | two | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cord=Patient in two=Location | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | the Wolf not said here | the Fox | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fox=Result |
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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