The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 115
But when he tried to walk--ah! that was another story!
Who acts: panther, that · What happens: try, walk, be · To what, where: story
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, that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 tried | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tried | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 walk | mark |
| 6 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 ah | punct |
| 8 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 walk | discourse |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 story | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 story | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 story | cop |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walk | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | panther | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | walk not said to happen | to-infinitive | panther not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | that | another story | tree rules |
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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