The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 60

Of course each wanted to have it, and they almost quarrelled over the matter; but at length it was settled that the hyena should wear the cloak by day and the jackal by night.

Who acts: jackals, hyena · What happens: want, have, quarrell, settle, wear · To what, where: course, matter, length, cloak

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 (jackals, hyena), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 each	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 wanted	obl
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 quarrelled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 quarrelled	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 quarrelled	nsubj
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 quarrelled	advmod
12	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 matter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 quarrelled	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 settled	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 settled	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 length	case
19	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 settled	obl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 settled	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 settled	aux:pass
22	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 wear	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hyena	det
25	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wear	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 wear	aux
27	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 settled	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cloak	det
29	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wear	obj
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 day	case
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wear	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 jackal	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 jackal	det
34	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 day	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 night	case
36	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wear	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past					of each	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive		course				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	quarrell	past	jackals = jackal		the matter		almost property	tree rules
4	settle	past · passive		course	length			vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at length=Location
5	wear	should	the hyena	the cloak		day; night		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=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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