The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 37
When everything was complete, the jackal said to the sheep:
Who acts: everything, complete jackal · What happens: be, say · To what, where: sheep · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (everything, complete 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 complete | mark |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 complete | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 complete | cop |
| 4 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 jackal | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 complete | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jackal | det |
| 7 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sheep | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sheep | det |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | complete property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the complete jackal | the sheep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sheep=Recipient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/19/37/