The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 82

In an instant he had let fall the flap of the sack and bounded back to where the sheep was standing.

Who acts: jackal, sheep · What happens: let, fall, bound back, stand · To what, where: jackal, instant, flap

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, sheep), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
6	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flap	det
9	flap	flap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sack	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sack	det
12	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flap	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bounded	cc
14	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 let	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 bounded	advmod
16	to	to	SCONJ	_	21 standing	mark
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 standing	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sheep	det
19	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 standing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 standing	aux
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 bounded	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let	past · perfect · passive		jackal	a instant	tree rules
2	fall	infinitive	jackal not said here	the flap of the sack		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient flap=Result
3	bound back	past				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past · progressive	the sheep			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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