The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 42
But the King was overcome by a sudden terror when he saw the enormous pack of wolves approaching nearer and nearer, and calling out to Ferko he said, ‘Enough, enough, we don’t want any more.’
Who acts: sudden terror, King, wolves, we · What happens: overcome, see, approach, call out, say, not want · To what, where: King, enormous pack, Ferko · 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 (sudden terror, King, wolves, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 overcome | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 overcome | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overcome | aux:pass |
| 5 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 terror | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 terror | det |
| 8 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 terror | amod |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overcome | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overcome | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pack | det |
| 14 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pack | amod |
| 15 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wolves | case |
| 17 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pack | nmod |
| 18 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 wolves | acl |
| 19 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 approaching | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 nearer | cc |
| 21 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 nearer | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 calling | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 calling | cc |
| 24 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 calling | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Ferko | case |
| 27 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 calling | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 calling | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Enough | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 Enough | punct |
| 32 | Enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 said | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 enough | punct |
| 34 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Enough | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 want | punct |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 want | nsubj |
| 37 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 want | aux |
| 38 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 want | advmod |
| 39 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saw | conj |
| 40 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 more | det |
| 41 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 want | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past · passive | a sudden terror | the King | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | King | the enormous pack of wolves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pack=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | approach | gerund | wolves not said here | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | gerund | King not said here | Ferko | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ferko=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not want | present · do-support | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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