The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 86

'One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, for my mother the sheep, and one for the jackal,' counted he; casting timid glances all the while at the sack.

Who acts: One, casting · What happens: count, cast, glance · To what, where: jackal

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 (One, casting), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 One	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 counted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 two	punct
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 One	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 three	punct
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 One	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 four	punct
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 One	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 five	punct
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 One	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 six	punct
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 One	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seven	punct
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 six	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mother	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 mother	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 six	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sheep	det
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mother	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 one	cc
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 One	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 jackal	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 jackal	det
26	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 one	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 counted	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 counted	punct
29	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 counted	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 glances	punct
32	casting	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 glances	csubj
33	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 casting	xcomp
34	glances	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 counted	conj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 while	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 while	det
37	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 glances	obl
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 sack	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sack	det
40	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 glances	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 counted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	count	past	One	jackal			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	cast	gerund				timid property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	glance	present	casting		while	at the sack	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sack=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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