The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 95
Still in spite of his warning she trembled all over when a huge wolf, as thin as if he had fasted for a month, with claws like saws, and mouth as wide as an oven, bounded howling towards her.
Who acts: bade, wolf, father · What happens: tremble, fast, bound, howl, spite, warn · To what, where: spite, warning
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 (bade, wolf, father), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 8 trembled | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 spite | case |
| 3 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trembled | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 warning | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 warning | nmod:poss |
| 6 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spite | nmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trembled | nsubj |
| 8 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 over | advmod |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 trembled | advmod |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 thin | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wolf | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wolf | amod |
| 14 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thin | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thin | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 thin | advmod |
| 17 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trembled | advcl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 fasted | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 fasted | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fasted | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fasted | aux |
| 22 | fasted | fast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 thin | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 month | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 month | det |
| 25 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fasted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 claws | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 claws | case |
| 28 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fasted | obl |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 saws | case |
| 30 | saws | saw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 claws | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wide | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wide | cc |
| 33 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wide | nsubj |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 wide | advmod |
| 35 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trembled | parataxis |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 oven | case |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 oven | det |
| 38 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wide | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bounded | punct |
| 40 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 wide | conj |
| 41 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 bounded | advcl |
| 42 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 43 her | case |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 howling | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | bade | spite of father's warning | still | over property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spite=Location | ||
| 2 | fast | past · perfect | wolf | month | with claws like saws | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bound | participle | bade not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | howl | gerund | bade not said here | towards bade | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | spite | father's warning | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | warn | father | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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