The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 46

But it was not sacks that the sheep wanted; for as soon as the jackal could no longer see her she set forth at her best pace to the home of the greyhound, where she arrived panting with the haste she had made.

Who acts: share, sheep, jackal, silence · What happens: not be, want, see, set, arrive, pant · To what, where: sacks, silence, haste

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 (share, sheep, jackal, silence), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 sacks	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sacks	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sacks	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sacks	advmod
5	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 wanted	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sheep	det
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sacks	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 soon	case
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 set	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 see	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 jackal	det
16	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
18	no	no	ADV	_	19 longer	advmod
19	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 see	advmod
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 soon	advcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 set	nsubj
23	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sacks	conj
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 set	advmod
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 pace	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pace	nmod:poss
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 pace	amod
28	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 home	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 home	det
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 set	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 greyhound	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 greyhound	det
34	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 home	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 arrived	punct
36	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 arrived	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 arrived	nsubj
38	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 greyhound	acl:relcl
39	panting	pant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 arrived	xcomp
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 haste	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 haste	det
42	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 panting	obl
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 made	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 made	aux
45	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 haste	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sacks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	share	sacks		tree rules
2	want	past	the sheep	sacks		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
3	see	could	the jackal	silence	long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	set	past	silence		at silence's best pace; to the home of the greyhound; forth, soon property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at pace=Destination
5	arrive	past	silence			tree rules
6	pant	gerund	silence not said here		with the haste	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	make	past · perfect	silence	the haste not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product

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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