The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 33
The fox sent word to the wolf to meet him at a certain place, and the three set forth to encounter him and his friends.
Who acts: fox, three set · What happens: send, meet, encounter · To what, where: word, wolf, fox, certain place
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, three set), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wolf | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 meet | mark |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 meet | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meet | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 encounter | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 encounter | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 set | det |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 set | nummod |
| 19 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 encounter | nsubj |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 encounter | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 encounter | mark |
| 22 | encounter | encounter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 encounter | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 friends | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 friends | nmod:poss |
| 26 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 him | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the fox | word | the wolf | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to wolf=Destination | |||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | fox | a certain place | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | encounter | to-infinitive | the three set | fox | forth property | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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