The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 63
The jackal agreed to this, and the hyena wrapped the cloak about him, and they both trotted off to the lion's den.
Who acts: jackal, hyena, jackals · What happens: agree, wrap, trot off · To what, where: cloak, den
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, hyena, jackals), 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 jackal | det |
| 2 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agreed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wrapped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wrapped | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hyena | det |
| 9 | hyena | hyena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrapped | nsubj |
| 10 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cloak | det |
| 12 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrapped | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wrapped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trotted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 trotted | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 trotted | nsubj |
| 18 | both | both | ADV | _ | 19 trotted | advmod |
| 19 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 trotted | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 den | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lion | det |
| 23 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 den | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 lion | case |
| 25 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trotted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the jackal | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wrap | past | the hyena | the cloak | about lion | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme about he=Destination | |||
| 3 | trot off | past | jackals = jackal | the lion's den | both property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to den=Destination |
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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