The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 10

'They none of them had any tails,' he said sadly to the old man, 'and I am tired of hunting them.

Who acts: jackals, panther, I · What happens: have, say, be, hunt · To what, where: tails, jackals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jackals, panther, I), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 had	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 none	nmod
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 tails	det
8	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	17 man	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 man	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tired	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tired	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 tired	cop
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 hunting	mark
25	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 tired	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hunting	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	jackals = jackal	any tails		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	panther			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	I		tired property	tree rules
4	hunt	gerund	I not said here	jackals = jackal		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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