The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 9

And how was the panther to know which was his enemy?

What happens: be, know · To what, where: panther, enemy · 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: 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	_	5 panther	cc
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 panther	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 panther	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 panther	det
5	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 panther	acl
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 enemy	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 enemy	cop
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 enemy	nmod:poss
11	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 panther	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the panther	tree rules
2	know	to-infinitive		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	panther's enemy	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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