The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 22
Suddenly a big wolf ran up to him, and standing still said, ‘I’m very glad to see you again, my kind benefactor.
Who acts: big wolf, standing, I · What happens: run up, say, be, see · To what, where: Ferko, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big wolf, standing, I), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wolf | amod |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 ran | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 11 | standing | standing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 glad | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 glad | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 glad | nsubj |
| 17 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 glad | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 glad | advmod |
| 19 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 glad | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 see | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 benefactor | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 benefactor | nmod:poss |
| 26 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 benefactor | amod |
| 27 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | a big wolf | Ferko | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | standing | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | again | my kind benefactor obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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