The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 140

The wicked jackal came amongst them; but as the panther had only seen him once he could not distinguish him from the rest.

Who acts: wicked jackal, Jackal · What happens: come, see, not distinguish · To what, where: Jackal, panther

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 (wicked jackal, 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	3 jackal	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jackal	amod
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 seen	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 seen	cc
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 panther	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 panther	det
11	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seen	obl
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 seen	advmod
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seen	obj
16	once	once	SCONJ	_	20 distinguish	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 distinguish	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 distinguish	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 distinguish	advmod
20	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 seen	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 distinguish	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 rest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 distinguish	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the wicked jackal		amongst numbers = number	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst they=Location
2	see	past · perfect	the wicked jackal not said here	Jackal	as the panther	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus as panther=Attribute
3	not distinguish	could	Jackal	panther	from the rest	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme from rest=Co-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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