The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 57

Now, though the jackal was dead, he had left two sons behind him, every whit as cunning and tricky as their father.

Who acts: jackal, Son · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: two sons

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, Son), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 dead	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
3	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 dead	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jackal	det
5	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 dead	conj
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sons	nummod
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 left	obj
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sons	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 whit	punct
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 whit	det
18	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sons	conj
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 cunning	case
20	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 whit	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tricky	cc
22	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 whit	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 father	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tricky	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the jackal				now	dead property	tree rules
2	leave	past · perfect	Son	two sons and every whit as cunning				behind hedgehog	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent son=Theme behind he=Location

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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