The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 52

‘All right,’ said the dog, and as soon as it grew dusk he began to bark loudly.

Who acts: pig, dog · What happens: say, grow, begin, bark · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (pig, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 said	ccomp
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 All	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grew	cc
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 soon	advmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 grew	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 grew	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
16	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 bark	mark
20	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	20 bark	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the dog			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dog=Topic
2	grow	past	pig		dusk	soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	dog				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	bark	to-infinitive	dog not said here			loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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