The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 43

He knew quite well by the paws and tail that it was a greyhound and not a sheep, that the shepherd had sold them; and as he could not tell what turn affairs might take, he resolved to get out of the way.

Who acts: hedgehog, rope, turn affairs · What happens: know, be, sell, not tell, take, resolve · To what, where: greyhound, shepherd, way · 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 (hedgehog, rope, turn affairs), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 paws	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 paws	det
7	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knew	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tail	cc
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paws	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 greyhound	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 greyhound	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 greyhound	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 greyhound	det
14	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sheep	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 sheep	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sheep	det
18	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 greyhound	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sold	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 sold	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shepherd	det
22	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sold	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sold	aux
24	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 knew	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sold	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tell	cc
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 tell	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 tell	advmod
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knew	conj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 tell	obj
34	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 affairs	compound
35	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 take	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 what	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 resolved	punct
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 resolved	nsubj
40	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 get	mark
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 resolved	xcomp
43	out	out	ADP	_	46 way	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 way	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 way	det
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 get	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	hedgehog		by the paws and tail; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	rope	a greyhound and a sheep		tree rules
3	sell	past · perfect · passive		the shepherd		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Theme
4	not tell speech: assert	could	hedgehog			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
5	take	might	turn affairs			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	resolve	past	hedgehog			tree rules
7	get out	to-infinitive	hedgehog not said here	the way		tree rules

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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