The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 118
He had never tried to make his dinner off them, and they had always been quite friendly.
Who acts: panther, partridges · What happens: not try, make, be · To what, where: dinner
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, partridges), 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 | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 tried | advmod |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 friendly | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 friendly | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 friendly | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 friendly | aux |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 friendly | advmod |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 friendly | cop |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 friendly | advmod |
| 18 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tried | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try | past · perfect | panther | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | panther not said here | panther's dinner | off partridges = partridge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dinner=Product | |||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | partridges = partridge | always, friendly property | 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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