The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 23
‘That’s lucky for him,’ said Simon, but Susan sighed, for she had been very fond of the poor creature.
Who acts: That, Simon, Susan · What happens: be, say, sigh · 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 (That, Simon, Susan), 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 | _ | 4 lucky | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lucky | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lucky | cop |
| 4 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lucky | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lucky | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 lucky | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sighed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sighed | cc |
| 13 | Susan | Susan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sighed | nsubj |
| 14 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fond | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 fond | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fond | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fond | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 fond | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 fond | advmod |
| 21 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sighed | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 creature | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 creature | det |
| 24 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 creature | amod |
| 25 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fond | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | for dog; lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Simon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sigh | past | Susan | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | Susan | of the poor creature; fond property | tree rules |
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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