The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 19

Susan was very unhappy at his words, and so was the dog, who was lying in the corner of the room and had heard everything.

Who acts: Susan, dog, husband · What happens: be, lie, hear, word · To what, where: words, dog, corner, everything

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 (Susan, dog, husband), 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	Susan	Susan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 unhappy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unhappy	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 unhappy	advmod
4	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 words	nmod:poss
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 unhappy	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dog	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dog	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 dog	advmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dog	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unhappy	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lying	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lying	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lying	aux
17	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 dog	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 corner	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 corner	det
20	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lying	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 room	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 room	det
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 corner	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heard	cc
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 heard	aux
26	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 unhappy	conj
27	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 heard	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unhappy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Susan		husband's words	unhappy property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the dog			tree rules
3	lie	past · progressive	the dog		the corner of the room		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
4	hear	past · perfect	Susan not said here	everything			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
5	word		husband				nom word «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 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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