The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 117

After some time some little partridges who were hopping about heard the poor panther's groans, and went up to see what was the matter.

Who acts: little partridges, poor panther · What happens: hop about, hear, go up, see, be, groan · To what, where: groans, matter · 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 (little partridges, poor 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 partridges	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 partridges	amod
6	partridges	partridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hopping	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hopping	aux
9	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 partridges	acl:relcl
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 heard	advmod
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 panther	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 panther	amod
14	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 groans	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 panther	case
16	groans	groan	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 heard	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 went	compound:prt
21	to	to	PART	_	22 see	mark
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 went	xcomp
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 matter	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 matter	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 matter	det
26	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hop about	past · progressive	some little partridges				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	some little partridges	the poor panther's groans	time	about property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer groan=Stimulus
3	go up	past	some little partridges not said here				tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	some little partridges not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past		the matter			tree rules
6	groan		the poor panther				nom groan «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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