The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 53

Like a flash of lightning the jackal threw down the cord and was flying across the plain; but though his legs were long, the greyhound's legs were longer still, and he soon came up with his prey.

Who acts: jackal, legs, hedgehog, lightning · What happens: throw down, fly, be, come up, flash · To what, where: cord, plain

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, legs, hedgehog, lightning), 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	Like	like	ADP	_	3 flash	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 flash	det
3	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 lightning	case
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flash	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jackal	det
7	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	nsubj
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 threw	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cord	det
11	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flying	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flying	aux
14	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 threw	conj
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 plain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 plain	det
17	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flying	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 long	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 long	cc
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 long	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 legs	nmod:poss
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 long	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 long	cop
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 threw	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 long	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 greyhound	det
27	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 legs	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 greyhound	case
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 still	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 still	cop
31	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 still	advmod
32	still	still	ADV	_	24 long	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 came	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 came	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 came	nsubj
36	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 came	advmod
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 threw	conj
38	up	up	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 prey	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 prey	nmod:poss
41	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw down	past	the jackal	the cord		like a flash of lightning	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme
2	fly	past · progressive	the jackal not said here		the plain		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory
3	is	past	hedgehog's legs			long property	tree rules
4	is	past	the greyhound's legs			long, still property	tree rules
5	come up	past	hedgehog			with hedgehog's prey; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	flash		lightning				nom flash «event intransitive»: of=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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