The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 127
Now I will go after the jackal and pay him my debts.'
Who acts: I · What happens: go, pay · To what, where: Jackal
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 (I), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 jackal | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jackal | det |
| 7 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pay | cc |
| 9 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pay | obj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 debts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | debts | debt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pay | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | after the jackal; now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | infinitive | I not said here | Jackal | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient debt=Asset |
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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