The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 131

The panther gave a loud roar, and sprang forward, but the jackal was too quick for him and plunged into a dense thicket, where the panther could not follow.

Who acts: panther, jackal · What happens: give, spring, be, plunge, not follow · To what, where: loud roar, dense thicket

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, jackal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 panther	det
2	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 roar	det
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 roar	amod
6	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sprang	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sprang	cc
9	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
10	forward	forward	ADV	_	9 sprang	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 quick	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 quick	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jackal	det
14	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quick	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 quick	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 quick	advmod
17	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gave	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 quick	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 plunged	cc
21	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	25 thicket	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thicket	det
24	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thicket	amod
25	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 plunged	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 follow	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 follow	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 panther	det
29	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 follow	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 follow	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 follow	advmod
32	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 thicket	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	the panther	a loud roar			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme
2	spring	past	the panther not said here			forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the jackal			for panther; quick property	tree rules
4	plunge	past	the panther not said here		a dense thicket		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into thicket=Initial_Location
5	not follow	could	the panther				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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