The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 68

After a long chase the wolves managed to surround their prey, and the mink, seeing it was no good resisting any more, gave himself up.

Who acts: wolves, prey · What happens: manage, surround, see, be, give up · To what, where: mink, prey, good resisting, Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves, prey), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 chase	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chase	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chase	amod
4	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 managed	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolves	det
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 managed	nsubj
7	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 surround	mark
9	surround	surround	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 managed	xcomp
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 prey	nmod:poss
11	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 surround	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mink	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mink	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mink	det
15	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 managed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seeing	punct
17	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 managed	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 resisting	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 resisting	cop
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 resisting	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 resisting	amod
22	resisting	resisting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeing	ccomp
23	any	any	ADV	_	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 seeing	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 managed	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 gave	iobj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 gave	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	manage	past	the wolves	the mink		after a long chase	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	surround	to-infinitive	the wolves not said here	Mink's prey			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prey=Co-Theme
3	see	gerund	the wolves not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	prey	no good resisting			tree rules
5	give up	past	the wolves not said here		Wolf		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Source

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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