The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 54

The jackal turned to fight, but he was no match for the greyhound, and in a few minutes he was lying dead on the ground, while the greyhound was trotting peacefully back to the shepherd.

Who acts: jackal, hedgehog, greyhound · What happens: turn, fight, be, lie, trot · To what, where: match, ground

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, hedgehog, greyhound), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jackal	det
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fight	mark
5	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 match	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 match	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 match	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 match	cop
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 match	det
11	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 greyhound	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 greyhound	det
14	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 match	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lying	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lying	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 minutes	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 minutes	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 minutes	amod
20	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lying	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lying	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lying	aux
23	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 turned	advcl
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lying	xcomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lying	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 trotting	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 trotting	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 greyhound	det
31	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 trotting	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 trotting	aux
33	trotting	trot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 lying	conj
34	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	35 back	advmod
35	back	back	ADV	_	33 trotting	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 shepherd	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shepherd	det
38	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 back	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the jackal					tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	the jackal not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	hedgehog	no match			for the greyhound	tree rules
4	lie	past · progressive	hedgehog		the ground	minute	dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
5	trot	past · progressive	the greyhound					vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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