The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 8
And the jackals sprang up and ran away in all directions, leaving their tails behind them.
Who acts: jackals · What happens: spring up, run away, leave · To what, where: directions, tails
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sprang | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jackals | det |
| 3 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ran | cc |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 ran | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 directions | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 directions | det |
| 11 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ran | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaving | punct |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ran | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tails | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leaving | obj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leaving | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the jackals | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run away | past | the jackals not said here | all directions | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the jackals not said here | jackals's tails | behind jackals = jackal | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tail=Theme behind they=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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