The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 37
This was the cat, who was marching along with her tail erect.
Who acts: This, cat · What happens: be, march · To what, where: 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 cat | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cat | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 marching | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 marching | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 marching | aux |
| 8 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 cat | acl |
| 9 | along | along | ADV | _ | 8 marching | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 tail | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tail | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marching | obl |
| 13 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tail | amod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the cat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | march | past · progressive | the cat | with boar's tail; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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