The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 44

Now it was the bear’s turn to be alarmed, and with a mighty growl he jumped down from the oak and fell right on the top of the wolf and killed him as dead as a stone.

Who acts: face, dog · What happens: be, alarm, jump down, fall, kill · To what, where: turn, oak, top, dog

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 (face, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 turn	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 bear	case
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 alarmed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 alarmed	aux:pass
10	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 turn	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 jumped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 jumped	cc
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 growl	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 growl	det
15	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 growl	amod
16	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jumped	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 jumped	nsubj
18	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 alarmed	parataxis
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 jumped	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 oak	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 oak	det
22	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 jumped	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 jumped	conj
25	right	right	ADV	_	24 fell	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 top	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 top	det
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 wolf	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wolf	det
31	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 top	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 killed	cc
33	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fell	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 killed	obj
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 dead	advmod
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 killed	advcl
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 stone	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 stone	det
39	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dead	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	face	the bear's turn		now		tree rules
2	alarm	to-infinitive · passive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	jump down	past	dog		the oak		with a mighty growl; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from oak=Trajectory
4	fall	past	dog not said here		the top of the wolf		right property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on top=Location
5	kill	past	dog not said here	dog				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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