The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 115
'Do as I bid you at once,' said the jackal, looking at the hedgehog so sternly that the little fellow dared say no more, and soon rolled the jars to the window where the jackal lifted them out one by one.
Who acts: you, I, little fellow, jackal · What happens: do, bid, say, look, dare, roll · To what, where: you, jackal, more, jars, window · 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 (you, I, little fellow, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 bid | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bid | nsubj |
| 5 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bid | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 bid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 jackal | det |
| 13 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 hedgehog | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hedgehog | det |
| 18 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 sternly | advmod |
| 20 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 15 looking | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 dared | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fellow | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fellow | amod |
| 24 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dared | nsubj |
| 25 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looking | advcl |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 dared | xcomp |
| 27 | no | no | ADV | _ | 28 more | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 say | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 rolled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 rolled | cc |
| 31 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 rolled | advmod |
| 32 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 jars | det |
| 34 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rolled | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 window | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 window | det |
| 37 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rolled | obl |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 lifted | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 jackal | det |
| 40 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lifted | nsubj |
| 41 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 rolled | advcl |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 lifted | obj |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 lifted | compound:prt |
| 44 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 lifted | obj |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 one | case |
| 46 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 one | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | you not said here | the jackal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jackal=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | you not said here | at the hedgehog; sternly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hedgehog=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dare | past | the little fellow | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the little fellow not said here | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 7 | roll | past | the jars | the window | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent jar=Theme to window=Trajectory | |||
| 8 | lift out | past | the jackal | jars = jar | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme one=Destination |
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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