The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 41

So the jackal began to weigh it, and when he had finished, he counted out loud:

Who acts: jackal · What happens: begin, weigh, finish, count out · To what, where: grain

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	So	so	ADV	_	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackal	det
3	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 weigh	mark
6	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 weigh	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 finished	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 finished	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 finished	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 finished	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 finished	aux
13	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 began	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 counted	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 counted	nsubj
16	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 counted	advmod
18	loud	loud	ADV	_	16 counted	advmod
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the jackal			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	weigh	to-infinitive	the jackal not said here	grain		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value
3	finish	past · perfect	jackal			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	count out	past	jackal		loud, out property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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