The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 9
When Simon went off to his work, the poor cat miawed so pitifully, and looked up so pathetically into Susan’s face, that the woman quickly opened the door and said, ‘Fly for your life, my poor little beast, and get well away from here before your master returns.’
Who acts: Simon, woman, master · What happens: go off, miaw, look up, open, say, fly · To what, where: poor cat, door, poor little beast · 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 (Simon, woman, master), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | advcl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 work | nmod:poss |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cat | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cat | amod |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | appos |
| 12 | miawed | miaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cat | acl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 pitifully | advmod |
| 14 | pitifully | pitifully | ADV | _ | 12 miawed | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 pathetically | advmod |
| 20 | pathetically | pathetically | ADV | _ | 24 face | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 face | case |
| 22 | Susan | Susan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 face | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Susan | case |
| 24 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 opened | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 opened | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 woman | det |
| 28 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 opened | nsubj |
| 29 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 28 woman | advmod |
| 30 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looked | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 opened | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 opened | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Fly | punct |
| 36 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 Fly | punct |
| 37 | Fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 said | ccomp |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 life | case |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 life | nmod:poss |
| 40 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Fly | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 beast | punct |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 beast | nmod:poss |
| 43 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 beast | amod |
| 44 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 beast | amod |
| 45 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Fly | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 get | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 get | cc |
| 48 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 Fly | parataxis |
| 49 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 50 away | advmod |
| 50 | away | away | ADV | _ | 48 get | advmod |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 52 here | case |
| 52 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 away | obl |
| 53 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 56 returns | mark |
| 54 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 master | nmod:poss |
| 55 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 returns | nsubj |
| 56 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 get | advcl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 58 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | Simon | to Simon's work | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | miaw | participle | the poor cat not said here | pitifully property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | into Susan's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | |||||
| 4 | open | past | the woman | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | fly | infinitive | my poor little beast | for your life | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | get | infinitive | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | return | present | your master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | work | Simon | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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