The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 52

But just as he was about to spring on his back and give him a deadly bite, the jackal heard a low growl, which never proceeded from the throat of any sheep.

Who acts: hedgehog, jackal, low growl · What happens: be, spring, give, hear, not proceed · To what, where: back, deadly bite, hedgehog, low growl, throat

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, jackal, low growl), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 about	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 about	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 about	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 about	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 about	cop
6	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 spring	mark
8	spring	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 about	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 back	nmod:poss
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spring	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spring	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bite	det
16	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bite	amod
17	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heard	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jackal	det
20	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bite	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 growl	det
23	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 growl	amod
24	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 proceeded	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 proceeded	nsubj
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 proceeded	advmod
28	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 growl	acl:relcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 throat	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 throat	det
31	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 proceeded	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 sheep	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 sheep	det
34	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 throat	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	hedgehog				about property	tree rules
2	spring	to-infinitive	hedgehog not said here			hedgehog's back		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
3	give	infinitive	hedgehog not said here	a deadly bite	hedgehog			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bite=Theme
4	hear	past	the jackal	a low growl				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer growl=Stimulus
5	not proceed	past	a low growl			the throat of any sheep		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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