The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 40
'He is a sheep,' repeated the jackal, who did not like to think anyone cleverer than himself.
Who acts: greyhound, sheep, jackal · What happens: be, repeat, not like, think · To what, where: sheep, jackal, anyone
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 (greyhound, sheep, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sheep | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sheep | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sheep | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sheep | det |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repeated | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sheep | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sheep | punct |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 jackal | det |
| 10 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repeated | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 like | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 like | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 like | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 jackal | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 like | xcomp |
| 18 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 think | obj |
| 19 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 anyone | amod |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 himself | case |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 cleverer | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | greyhound | a sheep | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | a sheep | the jackal | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jackal=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | the jackal | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the jackal not said here | anyone | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anyone=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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