The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 8
Susan was very unhappy when she heard this, and so was the cat, who had been listening to the conversation behind the stove.
Who acts: Susan, cat · What happens: be, hear, listen · To what, where: this, cat
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, cat), 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 | Susan | Susan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 unhappy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unhappy | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 unhappy | advmod |
| 4 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unhappy | advcl |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cat | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 cat | advmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cat | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cat | det |
| 14 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unhappy | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 listening | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 listening | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 listening | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 listening | aux |
| 19 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 cat | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 conversation | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 conversation | det |
| 22 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 listening | obl |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 stove | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stove | det |
| 25 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 conversation | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unhappy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Susan | unhappy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Susan | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Susan not said here | the cat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | listen | past · perfect · progressive | the cat | to the conversation behind the stove | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to conversation=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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