The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 49
His feet were almost on the bridge, when a big grey wolf with grinning teeth appeared before the princess.
Who acts: feet, big grey wolf · What happens: be, grin, appear · To what, where: bridge
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, big grey wolf), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bridge | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bridge | cop |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 7 bridge | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bridge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bridge | det |
| 7 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appeared | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 appeared | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wolf | amod |
| 12 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wolf | amod |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 teeth | case |
| 15 | grinning | grin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 teeth | amod |
| 16 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wolf | nmod |
| 17 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bridge | parataxis |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appeared | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bridge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | emperor's feet | the bridge | almost property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grin | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | appear | past | a big grey wolf with grinning teeth | before the princess | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before princess=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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