The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 62
I certainly never believed the old dog was so quick at hearing.’
Who acts: I, old dog · What happens: not believe, be · To what, where: hearing
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 (I, old 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 believed | advmod |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 believed | advmod |
| 4 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dog | amod |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quick | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 quick | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 quick | advmod |
| 10 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 believed | ccomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 hearing | case |
| 12 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quick | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believed | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | past | I | certainly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the old dog | hearing | quick property | tree rules |
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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