The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 99
The jackal continued to run till at last he could run no longer.
Who acts: jackal, lion · What happens: continue, run · To what, where: last
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, lion), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jackal | det |
| 2 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 run | mark |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continued | xcomp |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 run | mark |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 run | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 run | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 run | aux |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 run | advcl |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 run | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the jackal | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | the jackal not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | could | lion | last | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory |
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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