The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 75

After running several miles the jackal thought he was safe from pursuit, and seeing a lion and another hyena talking together, he strolled up to join them.

Who acts: jackal, luck, hyena · What happens: run, think, be, see, talk, stroll up · To what, where: several miles, pursuit, lion, jackals · 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, luck, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 running	mark
2	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 thought	advcl
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 miles	amod
4	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 running	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jackal	det
6	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 safe	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 safe	cop
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	ccomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 pursuit	case
12	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 safe	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 strolled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 strolled	cc
15	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 strolled	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lion	det
17	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seeing	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hyena	cc
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 hyena	det
20	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lion	conj
21	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 hyena	acl
22	together	together	ADV	_	21 talking	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seeing	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 strolled	nsubj
25	strolled	stroll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 strolled	compound:prt
27	to	to	PART	_	28 join	mark
28	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 strolled	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 join	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	gerund	the jackal not said here	several miles			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory
2	think speech: other	past	the jackal				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	luck		pursuit	safe property	tree rules
4	see	gerund	luck not said here	a lion and another hyena			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus
5	talk	gerund	another hyena not said here			together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stroll up	past	luck				tree rules
7	join	to-infinitive	luck not said here	jackals = jackal			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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