The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 144

And before the panther had recovered from his surprise he found himself alone.

Who acts: panther · What happens: recover, find, surprise · To what, where: surprise, 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 recovered	cc
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 panther	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 panther	det
4	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recovered	obl
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recovered	aux
6	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 surprise	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 surprise	nmod:poss
9	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recovered	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 surprise	acl:relcl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 found	obj
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	11 found	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	past · perfect			panther's surprise	before the panther		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source
2	find	past	panther	panther			alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
3	surprise		panther					nom surprise «feeling transitive»: 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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