The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 26
Very, very early, before the sun was properly up, the jackal and the hedgehog were pulling at the shepherd's cloak.
Who acts: sun, jackal · What happens: be, pull
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 (sun, 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 4 early | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Very | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 early | advmod |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 pulling | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 up | punct |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 up | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 up | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 up | cop |
| 10 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 11 up | advmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 pulling | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 jackal | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 jackal | det |
| 14 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pulling | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hedgehog | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hedgehog | det |
| 17 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jackal | conj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pulling | aux |
| 19 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 cloak | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shepherd | det |
| 22 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 shepherd | case |
| 24 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pulling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 pulling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | properly, up property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pull | past · progressive | the jackal and the hedgehog | at the shepherd's cloak; early property | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at cloak=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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