The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 138

The panther, whose manners were always good, thanked the old man, and followed his counsel.

Who acts: manners, panther · What happens: be, thank, follow · To what, where: old man, counsel

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 (manners, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 panther	det
2	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thanked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 good	punct
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 manners	nmod:poss
5	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 good	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 good	advmod
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 panther	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 panther	punct
10	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thanked	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 followed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 followed	cc
16	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thanked	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 counsel	nmod:poss
18	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 followed	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	manners			always, good property	tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	past	the panther		the old man		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	follow	past	the panther not said here	panther's counsel			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=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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