The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 75

‘Yes,’ said she, ‘I know the stag well,’ and as she spoke a little dog ran out of the house and began barking and snapping at the stranger.

Who acts: mishap, I, little dog · What happens: say, know, speak, run, begin, bark · To what, where: stag, house, stranger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mishap, I, little dog), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stag	det
12	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 know	obj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 know	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spoke	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 spoke	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spoke	nsubj
19	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dog	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dog	amod
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spoke	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 house	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ran	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spoke	conj
30	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 began	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 snapping	cc
32	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 barking	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 stranger	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stranger	det
35	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 snapping	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	mishap				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	I	the stag		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus
3	speak speech: other	past	mishap				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run	past	a little dog		the house		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory
5	begin	past	mishap not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	bark	gerund	mishap not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	snap	gerund	mishap not said here		the stranger		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stranger=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 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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