The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 43

But the wolf on whose back Ferko sat, said to its rider, ‘Go on! go on!’ and at the same moment many more wolves ran up the hill, howling horribly and showing their white teeth.

Who acts: wolf, many more wolves · What happens: sit, say, go on, run up, howl, show · To what, where: hill, white teeth · 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 (wolf, many more 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 back	nmod:poss
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wolf	nmod
7	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 back	appos
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 rider	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 rider	nmod:poss
13	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Go	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Go	punct
16	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
17	on	on	ADV	_	16 Go	advmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Go	punct
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Go	conj
20	on	on	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Go	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 Go	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ran	cc
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 moment	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 moment	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 moment	amod
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ran	obl
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wolves	amod
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 wolves	amod
30	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ran	nsubj
31	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 ran	compound:prt
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hill	det
34	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ran	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 howling	punct
36	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 ran	advcl
37	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	36 howling	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 showing	cc
39	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 howling	conj
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 teeth	nmod:poss
41	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 teeth	amod
42	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 showing	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the wolf on the wolf on the wolf's back's back				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the wolf on the wolf on the wolf's back's back not said here			to back's rider	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to rider=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	go on	infinitive					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go on	infinitive					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run up	past	many more wolves	the hill	moment		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory
6	howl	gerund	many more wolves not said here			horribly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	show	gerund	many more wolves not said here	wolves's white teeth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient

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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