The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 4
If you see a tailless jackal you will know that he is the one you want.'
Who acts: you, garden · What happens: see, know, be, want · To what, where: tailless jackal, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, garden), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 see | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 jackal | det |
| 5 | tailless | tailless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jackal | amod |
| 6 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 one | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 one | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a tailless jackal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jackal=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | garden | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | want | present | you | the one not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=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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