The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 110
'That sounds a good plan,' replied the jackal; and they set off together.
Who acts: That, good plan, jackals · What happens: sound, reply, set off · To what, where: good plan, jackal
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 (That, good plan, jackals), 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 | _ | 3 sounds | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sounds | nsubj |
| 3 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plan | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plan | amod |
| 6 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sounds | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plan | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 jackal | det |
| 11 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sounds | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | That | a good plan | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | a good plan not said here | the jackal | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jackal=Topic | ||||
| 3 | set off | past | jackals = jackal | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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