The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 102
'I have just had a narrow escape of my life,' gasped the jackal, 'and I need some sleep.
Who acts: I, life · What happens: have, gasp, need, escape · To what, where: narrow escape, jackal, sleep
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 (I, life), 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 | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 gasped | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 escape | det |
| 7 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 escape | amod |
| 8 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 escape | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 gasped | punct |
| 14 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jackal | det |
| 16 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gasped | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gasped | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 gasped | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 need | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 need | nsubj |
| 21 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gasped | conj |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 sleep | det |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 need | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | I | a narrow escape of my life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Patient | ||||
| 2 | gasp | past | the jackal | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | need | present | I | some sleep | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme | ||||
| 4 | escape | my life | nom escape «act intransitive»: of=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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