The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 95

One afternoon they were walking along a road together, when the jackal, who was the taller of the two, exclaimed:

Who acts: sorts, jackal · What happens: walk, be, exclaim · To what, where: road

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 (sorts, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 afternoon	nummod
2	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walking	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 walking	aux
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 exclaimed	advcl
6	along	along	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walking	obl
9	together	together	ADV	_	5 walking	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 exclaimed	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 exclaimed	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 jackal	det
13	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exclaimed	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taller	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 taller	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taller	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 taller	det
18	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 jackal	amod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 two	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 two	det
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 taller	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 jackal	punct
23	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	sorts = sort	a road	afternoon	together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
2	is	past	the jackal			of the two; tall property	tree rules
3	exclaim speech: express	past	the jackal				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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