The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 119
The jackal remained where he was, shaking with laughter, for the woman was not in sight at all, and he had only sent the hedgehog away because he did not want him to know where the jars of butter were buried.
Who acts: jackal, row, woman, hedgehog · What happens: remain, shake, not be, send away, not want, know · To what, where: all, hedgehog, jars · 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 (jackal, row, woman, hedgehog), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jackal | det |
| 2 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 shaking | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shaking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shaking | aux |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shaking | punct |
| 8 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 remained | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 laughter | case |
| 10 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shaking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sight | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sight | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sight | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 sight | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shaking | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 sight | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sent | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sent | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sent | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sent | aux |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 sent | advmod |
| 26 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 remained | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hedgehog | det |
| 28 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sent | obj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 sent | advmod |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 34 want | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 want | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 want | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 want | advmod |
| 34 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sent | advcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 want | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 know | mark |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 want | xcomp |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 buried | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 jars | det |
| 40 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 butter | case |
| 42 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 jars | nmod |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 buried | aux:pass |
| 44 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 know | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the jackal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shake | past · progressive | row | with laughter | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with laughter=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | the woman | all | for sight | tree rules | |||
| 4 | send away | past · perfect | row | the hedgehog | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Theme | |||
| 5 | not want | past · do-support | row | hedgehog | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | hedgehog not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | bury | past · passive | the jars of butter | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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