The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 130
At length, however, the panther caught sight of his enemy, at the same moment that the jackal had caught sight of him.
Who acts: panther · What happens: catch, sight · To what, where: sight, length, that, enemy, 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 caught | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 panther | det |
| 7 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 enemy | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moment | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 moment | amod |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 jackal | det |
| 20 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 caught | aux |
| 22 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 moment | parataxis |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 caught | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sight | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the panther | sight of panther's enemy | length | moment | however property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sight=Theme at length=Asset | |
| 2 | catch | past · perfect · passive | that | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sight=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sight | panther's enemy | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | sight | Jackal | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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