The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 139
The cow was killed, and the partridges flew about with invitations to the jackals, who gathered in large numbers to the feast.
Who acts: partridges, jackals · What happens: kill, fly, gather · To what, where: cow, large numbers
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 (partridges, jackals), 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 cow | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flew | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 partridges | det |
| 8 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 flew | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 invitations | case |
| 12 | invitations | invitation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flew | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 jackals | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jackals | det |
| 15 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gathered | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 gathered | nsubj |
| 18 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 jackals | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 numbers | case |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 numbers | amod |
| 21 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gathered | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 feast | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 feast | det |
| 24 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gathered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the cow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | the partridges | with invitations; to the jackals result; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to jackal=Result | ||||
| 3 | gather | past | the jackals | large numbers | to the feast | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to feast=Co-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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