The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 20
As soon as Simon had gone to his work, he stood up and howled so touchingly that Susan quickly opened the door, and said ‘Fly for your life, poor beast, before your master gets home.’
Who acts: Simon, Susan, master · What happens: go, stand up, howl, open, say, fly · To what, where: work, door, poor beast · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Susan, master), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 stood | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 4 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 stood | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 work | nmod:poss |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 stood | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 howled | cc |
| 15 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 touchingly | advmod |
| 17 | touchingly | touchingly | ADV | _ | 15 howled | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 opened | mark |
| 19 | Susan | Susan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | nsubj |
| 20 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 21 opened | advmod |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 howled | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 Fly | punct |
| 28 | Fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | ccomp |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 life | nmod:poss |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Fly | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 beast | punct |
| 33 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beast | amod |
| 34 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Fly | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gets | punct |
| 36 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 39 gets | mark |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 master | nmod:poss |
| 38 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 gets | nsubj |
| 39 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 Fly | advcl |
| 40 | home | home | ADV | _ | 39 gets | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Simon | Simon's work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stand up | past | Simon | soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | howl | past | Simon not said here | touchingly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | open | past | Susan | the door | quickly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Simon not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | fly | infinitive | poor beast | for your life | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | get | present | your master | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | work | Simon | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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