The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 113

The panther, who always believed what everybody told him, did exactly as he was bid, and in two hours' time began to fasten on the shoes.

Who acts: panther, everybody · What happens: believe, tell, bid, begin, fasten · To what, where: panther · Speech: someone speaks here

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, everybody), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 panther	det
2	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 believed	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 believed	advmod
6	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 told	obj
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 believed	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bid	punct
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bid	aux
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	17 bid	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 bid	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bid	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bid	aux:pass
17	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 time	case
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 hours	nummod
22	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 time	nmod:poss
23	'	's	PART	_	22 hours	case
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 began	obl
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 believed	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 fasten	mark
27	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 shoes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shoes	det
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fasten	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the panther				always property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	everybody		panther			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic
3	bid	past · passive · do-support		panther			exactly property	tree rules
4	begin	past	the panther not said here			time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fasten	to-infinitive	the panther not said here				on the shoes	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on shoe=Co-Patient

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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