The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 34
The wolf, the bear, and the wild boar arrived on the spot first, and when they had waited some time for the fox, the dog, and the cat, the bear said, ‘I’ll climb up into the oak tree, and look if I can see them coming.’
Who acts: bear, wolf, I, cat · What happens: arrive, wait, say, climb up, look, see · To what, where: wild boar, spot, oak tree, cat · 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 (bear, wolf, I, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bear | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wolf | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 boar | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 boar | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boar | det |
| 9 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boar | amod |
| 10 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wolf | conj |
| 11 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 boar | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 spot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spot | det |
| 14 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | obl |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 arrived | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 waited | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 waited | cc |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 waited | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 waited | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 waited | aux |
| 21 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 arrived | conj |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 fox | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fox | det |
| 26 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waited | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dog | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dog | det |
| 29 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fox | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 said | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 said | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cat | det |
| 33 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 said | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bear | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bear | det |
| 36 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cat | conj |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 climb | punct |
| 39 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 climb | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 climb | nsubj |
| 41 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 climb | aux |
| 42 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 said | ccomp |
| 43 | up | up | ADV | _ | 42 climb | advmod |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 47 tree | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 tree | det |
| 46 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tree | compound |
| 47 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 climb | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 look | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 look | cc |
| 50 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 climb | conj |
| 51 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 54 see | mark |
| 52 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 54 see | nsubj |
| 53 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 see | aux |
| 54 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 look | advcl |
| 55 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 see | obj |
| 56 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 54 see | xcomp |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 climb | punct |
| 58 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 42 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | participle | the wild boar not said here | the spot | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wait | past · perfect | bear | time | for the fox and the dog | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the wolf and the bear and the wild boar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | climb up | future | I | the oak tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination | ||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | I not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | see a condition, not said to happen | can | I | cat | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come | gerund | cat not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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