The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 143
This the panther noticed, and suddenly made a bound at the culprit and seized his tail; but again the jackal was too quick for him, and catching up a knife he cut off his tail and darted into the forest, followed by all the rest of the party.
Who acts: panther, jackal · What happens: notice, make, seize, be, catch up, cut off · To what, where: bound, culprit, tail, knife, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 panther | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 panther | det |
| 3 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 noticed | nsubj |
| 4 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 7 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 made | advmod |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bound | det |
| 10 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 culprit | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 culprit | det |
| 13 | culprit | culprit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seized | cc |
| 15 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 tail | nmod:poss |
| 17 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seized | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 quick | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 quick | cc |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 quick | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 jackal | det |
| 22 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 quick | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 quick | cop |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 quick | advmod |
| 25 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 noticed | parataxis |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 quick | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 cut | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 cut | cc |
| 30 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 cut | csubj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 catching | compound:prt |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 knife | det |
| 33 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 catching | obj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 cut | nsubj |
| 35 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noticed | parataxis |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 cut | compound:prt |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 tail | nmod:poss |
| 38 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cut | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 darted | cc |
| 40 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 cut | conj |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 forest | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 forest | det |
| 43 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 darted | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 followed | punct |
| 45 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 forest | acl |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 rest | case |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 rest | det:predet |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 rest | det |
| 49 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 followed | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 party | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 party | det |
| 52 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 rest | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | this panther | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make | past | a bound | the culprit | suddenly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bound=Product | |||
| 3 | seize | past | panther's tail | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the jackal | again | for panther; quick property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | catch up | gerund | a knife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | |||||
| 6 | cut off | past | Jackal | Jackal's tail | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tail=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | dart | past | Jackal not said here | the forest | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination | ||||
| 8 | follow | participle | the forest not said here | by all rest of the party | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by rest=Location |
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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