The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 42
The wild boar got up in a dreadful fright, gave one loud grunt and disappeared into the wood.
Who acts: wild boar · What happens: get up, give, disappear · To what, where: dreadful fright, one loud grunt, wood
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boar | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boar | amod |
| 3 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fright | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fright | det |
| 8 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fright | amod |
| 9 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 grunt | nummod |
| 13 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grunt | amod |
| 14 | grunt | grunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 disappeared | cc |
| 16 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disappeared | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the wild boar | a dreadful fright | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | give | past | one loud grunt | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grunt=Theme | |||||
| 3 | disappear | past | the wood | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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