The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 23
And he and the hedgehog looked about for a nice dry cave in which to make themselves comfortable for the night.
Who acts: shepherd, nice dry cave · What happens: look, make · To what, where: jackals
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 (shepherd, nice dry cave), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hedgehog | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hedgehog | det |
| 5 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 he | conj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 looked | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 10 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cave | amod |
| 11 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cave | amod |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 make | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cave | acl:relcl |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 make | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 night | det |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 comfortable | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | shepherd | for a nice dry cave; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a nice dry cave | jackals = jackal | comfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/18/23/