The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 3

Punctual to the moment the hedgehog arrived at the place appointed for their meeting, and as the jackal was not there he sat down and waited for him.

Who acts: Punctual moment hedgehog, jackal · What happens: arrive, appoint, not be, sit down, wait · To what, where: place

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 (Punctual moment hedgehog, 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	Punctual	punctual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hedgehog	amod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hedgehog	compound
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedgehog	det
6	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	nsubj
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrived	obl
11	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 place	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 meeting	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 meeting	nmod:poss
14	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 appointed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 there	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 jackal	det
19	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 there	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 there	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 there	advmod
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sat	advcl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 arrived	parataxis
25	down	down	ADP	_	24 sat	compound:prt
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 waited	cc
27	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sat	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 waited	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the Punctual moment hedgehog		the place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	appoint	participle		the place not said here		for their meeting	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not is	past	the jackal			there property	tree rules
4	sit down	past	jackal				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wait	past	jackal not said here			for jackal	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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