The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 43

But the cat was even more startled than the boar, and, spitting with terror, she scrambled up into the fork of the tree, and as it happened right into the bear’s face.

Who acts: boar, it · What happens: startle, spit, scramble up, happen · To what, where: cat, fork, face

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 (boar, it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 startled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 startled	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 startled	aux:pass
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 startled	advmod
7	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 boar	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boar	det
10	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 startled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spitting	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spitting	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spitting	punct
14	spitting	spit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 startled	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 terror	case
16	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spitting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 scrambled	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 scrambled	nsubj
19	scrambled	scramble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 startled	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 scrambled	compound:prt
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 fork	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fork	det
23	fork	fork	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scrambled	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fork	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 happened	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 happened	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 happened	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 happened	nsubj
31	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 scrambled	conj
32	right	right	ADV	_	37 face	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	37 face	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 bear	det
35	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 face	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 bear	case
37	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 happened	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 startled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	startle	past · passive		the cat		than the boar	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	spit	gerund				with terror	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with terror=Theme
3	scramble up	past	boar		the fork of the tree		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into fork=Destination
4	happen	past	it		the bear's face		vn occur-48.3-1 «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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