The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 195

‘Bow-wow!’ barked the hoarse yard-dog.

Who acts: Bow · What happens: bark · To what, where: hoarse yard dog

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bow), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Bow	punct
2	Bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barked	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 wow	punct
4	wow	wow	INTJ	_	2 Bow	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Bow	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Bow	punct
7	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dog	det
9	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dog	amod
10	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dog	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 yard	punct
12	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barked	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 barked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	Bow	the hoarse yard dog					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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