The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 61

At this the jackal got up, and going to the heap of grain which lay close by, he divided it as before into eight portions--seven for himself and one for the sheep.

Who acts: jackal, heap · What happens: get up, go, lie, divide · To what, where: this, heap, grain, eight portions

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, heap), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 got	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jackal	det
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 going	cc
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 got	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 heap	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heap	det
12	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 grain	case
14	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heap	nmod
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heap	acl:relcl
17	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 lay	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	16 lay	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 divided	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 divided	nsubj
21	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 divided	obj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 before	advmod
24	before	before	ADV	_	21 divided	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 portions	case
26	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 portions	nummod
27	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 divided	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 seven	punct
29	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 portions	appos
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 himself	case
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 seven	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 one	cc
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 seven	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 sheep	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sheep	det
36	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 one	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the jackal		this		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	gerund	the jackal not said here		the heap of grain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to heap=Initial_Location
3	lie	past	the heap of grain			close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	divide	past	jackal	grain	eight portions	before property	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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