The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 33
All the next day he spent wandering about the fields, and toward evening the wolf came running to him in a great hurry and said, ‘I have collected together all the wolves in the kingdom, and they are waiting for you in the wood.
Who acts: youth, wolf, I, wolves · What happens: spend, wonder, come, run, say, collect · To what, where: youth, great hurry, wolves, kingdom, wood · 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 (youth, wolf, I, wolves), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spent | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spent | nsubj |
| 6 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 spent | advcl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fields | det |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wandering | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 13 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 14 evening | case |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wolf | det |
| 16 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spent | parataxis |
| 18 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 came | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 running | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hurry | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hurry | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hurry | amod |
| 24 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 running | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 collected | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 collected | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 collected | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 collected | aux |
| 31 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 said | ccomp |
| 32 | together | together | ADV | _ | 31 collected | advmod |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 wolves | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wolves | det |
| 35 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 collected | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 kingdom | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 kingdom | det |
| 38 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 collected | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 waiting | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 waiting | cc |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 waiting | nsubj |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 waiting | aux |
| 43 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 spent | advcl |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 you | case |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 waiting | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 wood | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 wood | det |
| 48 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 waiting | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | youth | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | youth not said here | about the fields | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about field=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the wolf | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | gerund | the wolf not said here | youth | a great hurry | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the wolf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | collect | present · perfect | I | all wolves | the kingdom | together property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | ||
| 7 | wait | present · progressive | wolves = wolf | the wood | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
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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