The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 13
He is quite deaf and blind, and invariably barks when there is no need, and makes no sound when there is.
Who acts: Simon, need · What happens: be, bark, make · To what, where: sound
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon, need), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 deaf | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deaf | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 deaf | advmod |
| 4 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 blind | cc |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deaf | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 barks | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 barks | cc |
| 9 | invariably | invariably | ADV | _ | 10 barks | advmod |
| 10 | barks | bark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deaf | parataxis |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 is | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 barks | advcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 need | det |
| 15 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 makes | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 makes | cc |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 barks | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 sound | det |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 makes | obj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 is | advmod |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 makes | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deaf | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Simon | deaf property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Simon not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bark | present | invariably property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be | present | no need | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | present | no sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | |||||
| 6 | be | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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