The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 48
So he led the wolves on, till at last they fell on the King and on the wicked brothers, and ate them and the whole Court up in a moment.
Who acts: Ferko, wolves · What happens: lead on, fall, eat up · To what, where: wolves, last
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 (Ferko, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 led | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolves | det |
| 5 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 led | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 fell | mark |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fell | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brothers | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 brothers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brothers | det |
| 19 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 brothers | amod |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 King | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ate | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ate | cc |
| 23 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ate | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Court | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Court | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Court | amod |
| 28 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ate | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 ate | compound:prt |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 moment | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 moment | det |
| 32 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ate | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead on | past | Ferko | the wolves | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | wolves = wolf | last | on the King and the wicked brothers | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 3 | eat up | past | Ferko not said here | wolves = wolf | moment | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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