The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 98

'The fate of the hyena,' answered the jackal, laughing, and running off at his best speed; for he saw two men armed with spears coming close behind the lion!

Who acts: fate · What happens: answer, laugh, run off, see, come, fate · To what, where: jackal, best speed, two men, hyena

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 (fate), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 fate	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fate	det
3	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hyena	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hyena	det
6	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fate	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fate	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 fate	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 jackal	det
11	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laughing	punct
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 answered	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 running	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 running	cc
16	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 laughing	conj
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 running	compound:prt
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 speed	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 speed	nmod:poss
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 speed	amod
21	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 running	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 saw	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 saw	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saw	nsubj
25	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 men	nummod
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 saw	obj
28	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 saw	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 spears	case
30	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 armed	obl
31	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 saw	advcl
32	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 coming	advmod
33	behind	behind	ADP	_	35 lion	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 lion	det
35	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 coming	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the fate of the hyena		the jackal			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jackal=Eventuality
2	laugh	gerund	the fate of the hyena not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run off	gerund	the fate of the hyena not said here			fate's best speed		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory
4	see	past	fate	two men			armed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	come	gerund	fate not said here				behind the lion; close property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind lion=Location
6	fate			the hyena				nom fate «event transitive»: of=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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