The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 94
Full of wrath they ran to Simon’s house, and, refusing to listen to a word of explanation or excuse, they seized the old man and put him into a sack, meaning to drown him in the neighbouring river.
Who acts: Full wrath, wives · What happens: run, refuse, not listen, seize, put, mean · To what, where: old man, man, sack, neighbouring river, explanation
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Full wrath, wives), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wrath | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 wrath | case |
| 3 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Simon | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seized | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seized | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | refusing | refuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 seized | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 listen | mark |
| 15 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 refusing | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 word | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 listen | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 explanation | case |
| 20 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 word | nmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 excuse | cc |
| 22 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 explanation | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 refusing | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seized | nsubj |
| 25 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seized | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seized | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 sack | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 sack | det |
| 34 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 meaning | punct |
| 36 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 seized | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 drown | mark |
| 38 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 meaning | xcomp |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 drown | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 river | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 river | det |
| 42 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 river | amod |
| 43 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 drown | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Full wrath | to Simon's house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | ||||
| 2 | refuse | gerund | wives = wife not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not listen | to-infinitive | wives = wife not said here | to a word of explanation or excuse | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seize | past | wives = wife | the old man | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | wives = wife not said here | man | a sack | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |||
| 6 | mean | gerund | wives = wife not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | drown not said to happen | to-infinitive | wives = wife not said here | man | the neighbouring river | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 8 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | word | explanation or excuse | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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