The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 37

And when Gudu began to jump the goat's bones rattled and the people cried: 'It is Gudu who is the goat-slayer!'

Who acts: Gudu, people, baboon · What happens: begin, jump, rattle, cry, be · To what, where: bones, Gudu, goat slayer

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gudu, people, baboon), 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	_	4 began	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
3	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 jump	mark
6	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goat	det
8	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bones	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 goat	case
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jump	obj
11	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 jump	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 people	det
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Gudu	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 Gudu	punct
18	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 Gudu	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Gudu	cop
20	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 slayer	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 slayer	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 slayer	det
24	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slayer	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 goat	punct
26	slayer	slayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Gudu	acl:relcl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 slayer	punct
28	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 slayer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	Gudu		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	jump	to-infinitive	Gudu not said here	the goat's bones	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bone=Trajectory
3	rattle	participle	Gudu not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past	the people		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	baboon	Gudu	tree rules
6	is a	present	Gudu	the goat slayer	tree rules

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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