The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 26

Presently a fox passed by, and seeing the pair sitting together in a disconsolate fashion, he asked them why they sat there, and what they were grumbling about.

Who acts: fox, pair, cat · What happens: pass by, see, sit, ask, grumble · To what, where: pair, disconsolate fashion, cat

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 (fox, pair, cat), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	4 passed	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	4 passed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
8	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 asked	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pair	det
10	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seeing	obj
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 pair	acl
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 sitting	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 fashion	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fashion	det
15	disconsolate	disconsolate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fashion	amod
16	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seeing	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	nsubj
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	obj
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 sat	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 asked	advcl
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 sat	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 grumbling	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 grumbling	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 grumbling	obj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 grumbling	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 grumbling	aux
30	grumbling	grumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 asked	advcl
31	about	about	ADV	_	30 grumbling	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass by	participle	a fox				presently property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	gerund	fox not said here	the pair				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	the pair not said here			a disconsolate fashion	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fashion=Location
4	ask speech: ask	past	fox		cat			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	sit	past	cat			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	grumble speech: other	past · progressive	cat				about property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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