The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 31
And he held out his paw in such an inviting manner that the sheep got up and trotted beside him till they reached home.
Who acts: jackal, sheep · What happens: hold out, invite, get up, trot, reach · To what, where: paw, inviting manner
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, sheep), 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 | _ | 3 held | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 paw | nmod:poss |
| 6 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 manner | case |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 manner | det:predet |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 manner | det |
| 10 | inviting | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 manner | amod |
| 11 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 got | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 got | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trotted | cc |
| 18 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | conj |
| 19 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 trotted | obl |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 23 reached | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reached | nsubj |
| 23 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 trotted | advcl |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 reached | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | jackal | jackal's paw | such inviting manner | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in manner=Location | |||
| 2 | invite | gerund | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | get up | past | the sheep | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | trot | past | the sheep not said here | beside jackal | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | reach | past | sheep | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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