The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 94

In a country which is full of wild beasts of all sorts there once lived a jackal and a hedgehog, and, unlike though they were, the two animals made great friends, and were often seen in each other's company.

Who acts: country, sorts, two animals · What happens: be, live, make, see · To what, where: jackal, country, great friends, two animals, other company

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 (country, sorts, two animals), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 country	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 full	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 country	acl:relcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 beasts	case
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beasts	amod
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sorts	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sorts	det
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 beasts	nmod
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 full	advmod
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 lived	advmod
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 jackal	det
17	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hedgehog	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hedgehog	det
20	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jackal	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 animals	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 animals	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	31 animals	case
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 animals	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 animals	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 animals	cop
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 animals	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 animals	det
30	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 animals	nummod
31	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lived	obl
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 animals	acl
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 friends	amod
34	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 seen	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 seen	cc
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 seen	aux:pass
38	often	often	ADV	_	39 seen	advmod
39	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 animals	acl
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 company	case
41	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	44 company	det
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 company	amod
43	's	's	PART	_	42 other	case
44	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 seen	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a country		there	of wild beasts of all sorts; full property	tree rules
2	live	past		a jackal and a hedgehog	a country	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme jackal=Location
3	is	past	sorts = sort			unlike the two animals	tree rules
4	make	participle	the two animals not said here	great friends			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product
5	see	past · passive		the two animals not said here	each other company	often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

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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