The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 59
Thieves have been here last night, and they have not left a single sausage.
Who acts: Thieves · What happens: be, not leave · To what, where: single sausage
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 (Thieves), 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 | Thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 here | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 night | amod |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 here | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 left | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 left | advmod |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 here | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sausage | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sausage | amod |
| 15 | sausage | sausage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | Thieves | night | here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not leave | present · perfect | thieves = thief | a single sausage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sausage=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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