The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 6

Now the jackal had guessed what advice the old man would give his enemy, and so, while his friends were greedily eating the ripest melons in the sunniest corner of the garden, he stole behind them and tied their tails together.

Who acts: old man, friends, garden · What happens: guess, give, be, eat, steal, tie · To what, where: jackal, enemy, ripest melons, sunniest corner, tails

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 (old man, friends, garden), 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	5 guessed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackal	det
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guessed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 guessed	aux
5	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 guessed	obj
7	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 what	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 enemy	nmod:poss
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 so	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 so	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	5 guessed	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 greedily	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 greedily	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friends	nmod:poss
21	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 greedily	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 greedily	cop
23	greedily	greedily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guessed	conj
24	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 greedily	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 melons	det
26	ripest	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 melons	amod
27	melons	melon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 eating	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 corner	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 corner	det
30	sunniest	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 corner	amod
31	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eating	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 garden	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 garden	det
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 corner	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stole	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stole	nsubj
37	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 greedily	parataxis
38	behind	behind	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stole	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tied	cc
41	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 stole	conj
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 tails	nmod:poss
43	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 tied	obj
44	together	together	ADV	_	41 tied	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past · perfect · passive		the jackal		now		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme what=Eventuality
2	give	would	the old man	man's enemy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme
3	is	past	man's friends				greedily property	tree rules
4	eat	gerund	man's friends not said here	the ripest melons	the sunniest corner of the garden			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Patient
5	steal	past	garden				behind jackals = jackal	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location
6	tie	past	garden not said here	jackals's tails			together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=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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