The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 125

So the hedgehog waited and waited; but every time he asked if there was no chance of getting jars of butter the jackal put him off with some excuse.

Who acts: hedgehog, time, jackal · What happens: wait, ask, be, get, put off · To what, where: time, chance, hedgehog

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 (hedgehog, time, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 waited	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hedgehog	det
3	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 waited	cc
6	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 chance	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chance	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 time	acl:relcl
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 was	mark
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 chance	cop
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 chance	det
17	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 jars	case
19	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 jars	amod
20	jars	jar	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chance	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 butter	case
22	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jars	nmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 jackal	det
24	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	nsubj
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	off	off	ADP	_	25 put	compound:prt
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 excuse	case
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 excuse	det
30	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the hedgehog				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	past	the hedgehog not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	hedgehog	every time not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent time=Recipient
4	is a	past	every time	no chance		of getting jars of butter	tree rules
5	get	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	put off	past	the jackal		hedgehog	with some excuse	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

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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