The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 132
Disgusted with his failure, but more angry than ever, the panther lay down for a while to consider what he should do next, and as he was thinking, an old man came by.
Who acts: panther, old man, Jackal · What happens: disgust, lie down, consider, do, think, come by
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, old man, 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 | Disgusted | disgust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 failure | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 failure | nmod:poss |
| 4 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Disgusted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 angry | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 angry | cc |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 angry | advmod |
| 8 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Disgusted | parataxis |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 ever | case |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 angry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 panther | det |
| 13 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 angry | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 while | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 while | det |
| 18 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 consider | mark |
| 20 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lay | advcl |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 do | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 consider | ccomp |
| 25 | next | next | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 came | cc |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 thinking | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 thinking | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 thinking | aux |
| 31 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 came | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thinking | punct |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 man | det |
| 34 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 man | amod |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | nsubj |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lay | conj |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 came | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Disgusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disgust | participle | with Jackal's failure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lie down | past | the panther | while | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | consider | to-infinitive | the panther not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | should | panther | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past · progressive | panther | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | come by | past | a old man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | fail | Jackal | nom failure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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