The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 67
So the mantle was spread upon the red earth, the hyena and the jackal standing on each side of it.
Who acts: jackal · What happens: spread, stand · To what, where: mantle, red earth, side
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 spread | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mantle | det |
| 3 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spread | aux:pass |
| 5 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 earth | amod |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spread | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hyena | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hyena | det |
| 12 | hyena | hyena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 earth | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jackal | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jackal | det |
| 15 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 earth | conj |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 jackal | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 side | det |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 standing | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 side | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · passive | the mantle | the red earth and the hyena and the jackal | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon earth=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the jackal not said here | each side of mantle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
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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