The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 25
They sat down under a holly tree and both poured forth their woes.
Who acts: cat, both · What happens: sit down, pour · To what, where: holly tree, woes
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 (cat, both), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | holly | holly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 poured | cc |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 poured | nsubj |
| 10 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sat | conj |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 poured | advmod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 woes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 poured | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | cat | a holly tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | pour | participle | both | cat's woes | forth property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Patient |
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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