The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 80
And the jackal, who loved dates, ran instantly back, and tore open the mouth of the sack.
Who acts: jackal, tore · What happens: love, run back, open · To what, where: dates, mouth
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, tore), 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 | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jackal | det |
| 3 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 loved | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 loved | nsubj |
| 6 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jackal | acl:relcl |
| 7 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 loved | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 loved | punct |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 open | cc |
| 14 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 open | nsubj |
| 15 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mouth | det |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 open | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sack | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sack | det |
| 20 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mouth | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the jackal | dates | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer date=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run back | past | the jackal | instantly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | present | tore | the mouth of the sack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/19/80/