The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 14

In order to test the truth of his statement about the dogs, he said at once, ‘Salt, I am hungry,’ and before the words were out of his mouth the dog had disappeared, and returned in a few minutes with a large basket full of the most delicious food.

Who acts: stranger, I, words, dog · What happens: test, say, be, have, return, state · To what, where: truth, Salt, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, I, words, 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	In	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 test	mark
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	to	to	PART	_	4 test	mark
4	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 test	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 statement	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 statement	nmod:poss
9	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 truth	nmod
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 dogs	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dogs	det
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 statement	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 test	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Salt	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Salt	punct
20	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hungry	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 hungry	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 hungry	cop
24	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Salt	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hungry	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 hungry	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 mouth	cc
28	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 mouth	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 words	det
30	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 mouth	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 mouth	cop
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 mouth	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 mouth	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mouth	nmod:poss
35	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Salt	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dog	det
37	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 mouth	acl:relcl
39	disappeared	disappeared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 had	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 returned	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 returned	cc
42	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 minutes	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 minutes	det
45	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 minutes	amod
46	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 returned	obl
47	with	with	ADP	_	50 basket	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 basket	det
49	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 basket	amod
50	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 returned	obl
51	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 basket	amod
52	of	of	ADP	_	56 food	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 food	det
54	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	55 delicious	advmod
55	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 food	amod
56	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 full	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive	stranger not said here	the truth of stranger's statement about the dogs				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	stranger	Salt and stranger's mouth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	I				hungry property	tree rules
4	is	past	the words		stranger's mouth			tree rules
5	have	past	the dog	stranger's mouth not said here			disappeared property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
6	return	participle	stranger not said here			minute	with a large basket	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	state		stranger				about the dogs	nom statement «communication transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

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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