The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 71

All that night the hyena sat up, fearing lest the jackal should reach the bell before him, for the mosque was close at hand.

Who acts: hyena, jackal, mosque · What happens: sit up, fear, reach, be · To what, where: bell, hand

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 (hyena, jackal, mosque), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 night	det:predet
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hyena	det
5	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fearing	punct
9	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 sat	advcl
10	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	14 reach	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 jackal	det
12	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reach	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reach	aux
14	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fearing	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bell	det
16	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reach	obj
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reach	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 close	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 close	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mosque	det
22	mosque	mosque	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 close	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 close	cop
24	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reach	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 hand	case
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 close	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	the hyena			night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fear	gerund	the hyena not said here					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	reach	should	the jackal	the bell		before hyena		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bell=Theme
4	is	past	the mosque		hand		close 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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