The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 12
Of course the hedgehog had not been able to take part in any of these adventures; but as soon as all danger was over, the jackal went to look for his friend, whom he was lucky enough to find at home.
Who acts: danger, jackal, hedgehog · What happens: not be, take, be, go, look, find · To what, where: part, any, home
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 (danger, jackal, 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hedgehog | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hedgehog | det |
| 4 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 able | obl |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 able | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 any | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 take | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 adventures | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 adventures | det |
| 16 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 any | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 went | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 over | mark |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 danger | det |
| 23 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 over | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 over | cop |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 jackal | det |
| 28 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 able | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 look | mark |
| 31 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 went | xcomp |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 friend | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 friend | nmod:poss |
| 34 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 look | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lucky | punct |
| 36 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 lucky | obl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 lucky | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 lucky | cop |
| 39 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 friend | conj |
| 40 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 39 lucky | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 find | mark |
| 42 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 lucky | advcl |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 home | case |
| 44 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 find | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · perfect | of the hedgehog; able property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | part | any | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in any=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | all danger | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the jackal | soon property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | the jackal not said here | for hedgehog's friend | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for friend=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | hedgehog | hedgehog's friend obl; enough, lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | hedgehog not said here | home | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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