The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 57
But when she went to her larder, she found all the sausages gone, and a great hole in the floor.
Who acts: Susan · What happens: go, find · To what, where: larder, sausages
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 (Susan), 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 | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 larder | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 larder | nmod:poss |
| 7 | larder | larder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 sausages | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sausages | det |
| 13 | sausages | sausage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 found | obj |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sausages | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hole | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hole | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hole | amod |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 floor | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 floor | det |
| 22 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hole | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Susan | Susan's larder | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to larder=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Susan | all sausages | a great hole in the floor obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=Topic | |||
| 3 | go | participle | all sausages not said here | 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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