The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 35

The first time he looked round he said, ‘I can see nothing,’ and the second time he looked round he said, ‘I can still see nothing.’

Who acts: fox, I · What happens: look round, say, see · To what, where: first time, nothing · 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 (fox, I), 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	3 time	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	nsubj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 time	acl:relcl
6	round	round	ADP	_	5 looked	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 looked	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 looked	obl:unmarked
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 looked	nsubj
22	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 said	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 looked	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 see	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 see	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 see	aux
30	still	still	ADV	_	31 see	advmod
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 see	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	look round	past	fox	the first time not said here		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	fox		time	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	can	I	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	look round	past	fox		time	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	fox			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see	can	I	nothing	still	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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