The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 50
At length the jackal guessed that for some reason his friend had run away, and determined to wait for his breakfast no longer.
Who acts: jackal, friend · What happens: guess, run away, wait · To what, where: length · 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 (jackal, friend), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guessed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jackal | det |
| 4 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guessed | nsubj |
| 5 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 run | mark |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 reason | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 reason | det |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | obl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 run | aux |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 guessed | ccomp |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 run | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 determined | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 determined | cc |
| 17 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 guessed | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wait | mark |
| 19 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 determined | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 breakfast | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 22 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wait | obl |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 wait | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | the jackal | length | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run away | past · perfect | hedgehog's friend | for some reason; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for reason=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | the jackal not said here | for hedgehog's breakfast; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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