The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 12
The wolf didn’t wait to have the offer repeated, but set to work, and soon made an end of the poor beast.
Who acts: wolf, offer · What happens: not wait, have, repeat, set, work, make · To what, where: offer, end
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolf, offer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wait | advmod |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wait | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 offer | det |
| 9 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 have | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wait | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 work | mark |
| 15 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 made | advmod |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | advcl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 beast | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beast | det |
| 24 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beast | amod |
| 25 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 end | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wait | past · do-support | the wolf | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | the offer | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | repeat | participle | the offer not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | the wolf not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | past | the wolf not said here | a end of the poor beast | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |
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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