The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 107
He killed it instantly, and then gave a cry to the jackal and hedgehog to come to the place where he was.
Who acts: panther · What happens: kill, give, come · To what, where: flesh, cry, jackal, place
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (panther), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 killed | obj |
| 4 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 2 killed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 gave | advmod |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 killed | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cry | det |
| 10 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 jackal | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 jackal | det |
| 13 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hedgehog | cc |
| 15 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jackal | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gave | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 was | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 was | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 place | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | panther | flesh | instantly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | panther not said here | a cry | the jackal and hedgehog | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cry=Theme to jackal=Recipient | ||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | panther not said here | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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