The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 109
Next morning the jackal got up early and set to work upon the shoes, while the panther sat by and looked on with delight.
Who acts: jackal, panther · What happens: get up, set, work, sit by, look on
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 (jackal, 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jackal | det |
| 4 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 got | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 work | mark |
| 11 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | xcomp |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 shoes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shoes | det |
| 14 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 work | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 sat | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 panther | det |
| 18 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 sat | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 looked | cc |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sat | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 looked | compound:prt |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 delight | case |
| 25 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the jackal | morning | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | the jackal not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | the jackal not said here | upon the shoes | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sit by | past | the panther | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look on | past | the panther not said here | with delight | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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