The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 64

The jackal, who was fond of talking, at once told the story; and when it was finished the lion turned to the hyena and asked if it was true.

Who acts: jackal, lion, story · What happens: be, talk, tell, finish, turn, ask · To what, where: story, hyena · Speech: someone speaks here

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, lion, story), 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	6 fond	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fond	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	cop
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 talking	mark
8	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 fond	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 told	mark
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 told	advmod
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 finished	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 finished	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 finished	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 finished	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 finished	aux:pass
20	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 turned	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lion	det
22	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	nsubj
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 hyena	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hyena	det
26	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 asked	cc
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 turned	conj
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 true	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 true	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 true	cop
32	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 asked	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the jackal			fond property	tree rules
2	talk	gerund	the jackal not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the jackal not said here	the story		once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
4	finish	past · passive		story			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
5	turn	past	the lion		the hyena		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hyena=Trajectory
6	ask speech: ask	past	the lion not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a condition, not said to happen	past	story			true property	tree rules

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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