The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 39

And the wolf lay down under the oak, and the wild boar buried himself in some straw, so that nothing was seen of him but one ear.

Who acts: wolf, wild boar · What happens: lie down, bury, see · To what, where: oak, fox, straw, nothing

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 (wolf, wild boar), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 lay	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 oak	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oak	det
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 buried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 buried	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boar	det
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boar	amod
13	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buried	nsubj
14	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 buried	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 straw	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 straw	det
18	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buried	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seen	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 seen	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 seen	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux:pass
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 buried	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	obl
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 ear	cc
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 ear	nummod
29	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	the wolf		the oak	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under oak=Location
2	bury	past	the wild boar	fox	some straw		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in straw=Destination
3	see	past · passive		nothing		of fox	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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