The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 56
The Adventures of the Jackal's Eldest Son
What happens: adventure · To what, where: Eldest Son
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: 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 Adventures | det |
| 2 | Adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Son | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Jackal | det |
| 5 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Jackal | case |
| 7 | Eldest | Eldest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Son | compound |
| 8 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Adventures | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adventure | the Jackal's Eldest Son | nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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