The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 19
When they reached the shepherd the jackal pulled out his purse from under his foreleg, and made his bargain.
Who acts: legs, shepherd · What happens: reach, pull out, make, bargain · To what, where: jackal, shepherd, foreleg, bargain
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 (legs, shepherd), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shepherd | det |
| 5 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jackal | det |
| 7 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 8 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 jackal | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 pulled | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 purse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulled | obl:agent |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 foreleg | case |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 foreleg | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 foreleg | nmod:poss |
| 15 | foreleg | foreleg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulled | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bargain | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | legs = leg | the jackal | the shepherd | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Beneficiary jackal=Theme | |||
| 2 | pull out | participle | the jackal not said here | shepherd's foreleg | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | shepherd's bargain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product | |||||
| 4 | bargain | shepherd | nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=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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