The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 99
Then the jackal put on his shoes, which he had taken off so as to make no noise, and they returned to the high road.
Who acts: shoes · What happens: put, take off, make, return · To what, where: jackal, shoes, noise
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 (shoes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 taken | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jackal | det |
| 3 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 jackal | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 shoes | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taken | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 make | csubj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 taken | compound:prt |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 make | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 noise | det |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 returned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 returned | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 returned | nsubj |
| 23 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 road | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 road | det |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 road | amod |
| 27 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 returned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the jackal not said here | Jackal's shoes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take off | past · perfect · passive | the jackal | then | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | no noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | |||||
| 4 | return | past | shoes = shoe | to the high road result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result |
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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