The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 2
And the jackal went to sleep again, for he was obliged to be up early.
Who acts: jackal · What happens: go, sleep, oblige, be up · To what, where: 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), 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 | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jackal | det |
| 3 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 sleep | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 obliged | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 obliged | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 obliged | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 obliged | aux:pass |
| 12 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 be | mark |
| 14 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 obliged | xcomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 be | compound:prt |
| 16 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 be | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the jackal | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the jackal not said here | again | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | jackal | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | be up | to-infinitive | early property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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