The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 93

Then he turned to the jackal and said: 'How would you divide them?'

Who acts: lion, you · What happens: turn, say, divide · To what, where: 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 (lion, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 jackal	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jackal	det
6	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 divide	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 divide	punct
11	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 divide	advmod
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 divide	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 divide	nsubj
14	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 divide	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 divide	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 divide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	lion		then	to the jackal result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to jackal=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	lion not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	divide	would	you	jackals = jackal			vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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