The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 42
Very unwillingly the jackal held the rope, while the hedgehog walked slowly round the greyhound till he reached the jackal again.
Who acts: jackal, hedgehog · What happens: hold, walk, reach · To what, where: rope, jackal
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 (jackal, hedgehog), 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 | _ | 2 unwillingly | advmod |
| 2 | unwillingly | unwillingly | ADV | _ | 5 held | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jackal | det |
| 4 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 walked | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hedgehog | det |
| 11 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | conj |
| 13 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 14 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 greyhound | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 greyhound | det |
| 16 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 reached | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walked | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 jackal | det |
| 21 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 reached | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the jackal | the rope | unwillingly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | past | the hedgehog | round the greyhound; slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round greyhound=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | hedgehog | the jackal | again | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent jackal=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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