The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 40
And while they were lying there, the fox, the cat and the dog arrived.
Who acts: bear, dog · What happens: lie, arrive
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, dog), 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 | _ | 5 lying | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 lying | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lying | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fox | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fox | det |
| 9 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cat | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cat | det |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fox | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arrived | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dog | det |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arrived | nsubj |
| 16 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | bear | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the dog | 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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