The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 16
He did not like staying in the same place any better than they, and nobody ever knew in what part of the country he might be found next.
Who acts: jackal, nobody · What happens: not like, stay, know, find · To what, where: same place, part, jackal
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jackal, nobody), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | staying | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 like | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 staying | obl |
| 10 | any | any | ADV | _ | 11 better | advmod |
| 11 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 staying | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 they | case |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 better | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knew | cc |
| 16 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 knew | advmod |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 part | case |
| 20 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 21 part | det |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knew | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 country | det |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 part | nmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 found | aux:pass |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 country | acl:relcl |
| 29 | next | next | ADV | _ | 28 found | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | jackal | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | gerund | jackal not said here | the same place | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 3 | know | past | nobody | what part of the country | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | find | might · passive | jackal | next property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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