The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 3
There is a melon garden about two miles from here, and as jackals are very fond of melons they are nearly sure to have gone there to feed.
Who acts: melon garden, jackals · What happens: be, go, feed
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 (melon garden, jackals), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 4 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 garden | compound |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 two | advmod |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 miles | nummod |
| 8 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 here | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 here | case |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 is | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sure | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sure | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 fond | mark |
| 14 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fond | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fond | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 fond | advmod |
| 17 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sure | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 melons | case |
| 19 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fond | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sure | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sure | cop |
| 22 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 23 sure | advmod |
| 23 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 gone | mark |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 gone | aux |
| 26 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 sure | ccomp |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 gone | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 feed | mark |
| 29 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 gone | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a melon garden | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | jackals | of melons; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | jackals = jackal | nearly, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive · perfect | jackals = jackal not said here | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feed | to-infinitive | jackals = jackal not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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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