The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 40

He had not gone far before he met a wolf, who was limping disconsolately along on three legs, and who on perceiving Ferko began to howl dismally.

Who acts: Ferko, wolf · What happens: not go, meet, limp, perceive, begin, howl · To what, where: wolf, three legs

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 met	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 limping	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 limping	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 limping	aux
14	limping	limp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 wolf	acl
15	disconsolately	disconsolately	ADV	_	14 limping	advmod
16	along	along	ADP	_	19 legs	case
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 legs	case
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 legs	nummod
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 limping	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 perceiving	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 perceiving	cc
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 perceiving	nsubj
23	on	on	SCONJ	_	24 perceiving	mark
24	perceiving	perceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gone	advcl
25	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 perceiving	advcl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 howl	mark
28	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 began	xcomp
29	dismally	dismally	ADV	_	28 howl	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	Ferko			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	Ferko	a wolf			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent
3	limp	past · progressive	a wolf		three legs	disconsolately property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along leg=Trajectory
4	perceive	gerund					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	begin	past	Ferko				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	howl	to-infinitive	Ferko not said here			dismally property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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