The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 62

To this the hyena would by no means consent, and they were on the eve of a quarrel when the hyena proposed that they should ask the lion to judge between them.

Who acts: jackals, hyena · What happens: mean, be, propose, ask, judge · To what, where: consent, eve, lion

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	To	to	ADP	_	4 hyena	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hyena	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hyena	det
4	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obl
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 means	aux
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 no	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 means	obl
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eve	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 eve	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 eve	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 eve	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 eve	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 eve	det
16	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 quarrel	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 quarrel	det
19	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eve	nmod
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 proposed	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hyena	det
22	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 proposed	nsubj
23	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 eve	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 ask	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ask	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 ask	aux
27	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 proposed	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lion	det
29	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ask	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 judge	mark
31	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ask	xcomp
32	between	between	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 judge	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	would		consent			to this hyena; by no	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot consent=Theme to hyena=Attribute
2	is	past	jackals = jackal			the eve	of a quarrel	tree rules
3	propose	past	the hyena					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	should	jackals = jackal		the lion			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient clause=Topic
5	judge not said to happen	to-infinitive	jackals = jackal not said here				between jackals = jackal	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent

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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