The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 65
And as he stood thus, the Wolf and Fox and little Hare came up, and the woodman saw at once that they meant mischief.
Who acts: last, Wolf, woodman, ears · What happens: stand, come up, see, mean · To what, where: mischief
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 (last, Wolf, woodman, ears), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 stood | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | advcl |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Wolf | det |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Fox | cc |
| 10 | Fox | Fox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wolf | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Hare | cc |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Hare | amod |
| 13 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Wolf | conj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woodman | det |
| 19 | woodman | woodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 saw | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 meant | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 meant | nsubj |
| 25 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | advcl |
| 26 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 meant | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | last | thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come up | past | the Wolf and Fox and little Hare | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the woodman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | mean | past | ears = ear | mischief | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Topic |
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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