The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 124
This they did till the hard leather grew soft, and the panther was able to slip his feet out of them.
Who acts: This, hard leather, panther · What happens: do, grow, be, slip · To what, where: feet
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 (This, hard leather, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leather | det |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leather | amod |
| 7 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 9 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 able | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 panther | det |
| 13 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 able | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 slip | mark |
| 17 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 feet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slip | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 slip | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | the hard leather | soft property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the panther | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slip | to-infinitive | the panther not said here | panther's feet | out shoes = shoe | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent foot=Theme out they=Initial_Location |
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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