The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 7
After a time a wolf came through the thicket and trotted up to the musician.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: come, trot up · To what, where: thicket, musician
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 thicket | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thicket | det |
| 9 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trotted | cc |
| 11 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 trotted | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 musician | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 musician | det |
| 15 | musician | musician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trotted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a wolf | the thicket | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through thicket=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | trot up | past | a wolf not said here | the musician | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to musician=Destination |
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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