The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 46
'Don't be long, then,' called the jackal, as the hedgehog hurried off at his best pace.
Who acts: you, hedgehog · What happens: not be, call, hurry off · To what, where: jackal · 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, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 long | cop |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 called | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 long | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jackal | det |
| 12 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hurried | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 hurried | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hedgehog | det |
| 16 | hedgehog | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hurried | nsubj |
| 17 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 hurried | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 pace | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pace | nmod:poss |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 pace | amod |
| 22 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hurried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | imperative · do-support | you not said here | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the jackal | then | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hurry off | past | the hedgehog | at hedgehog's best pace | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory |
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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