The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 19

But in that moment the donkey had had time to prepare herself, and jumping on one side dealt the lion such a hard kick that he shrieked with the pain.

Who acts: donkey, jumping, lion · What happens: have, prepare, jump, deal, shriek · To what, where: donkey, one side, lion

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkey, jumping, lion), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 donkey	det
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 prepare	mark
11	prepare	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 time	acl
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 prepare	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dealt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dealt	cc
15	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 dealt	csubj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 side	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 side	nummod
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 jumping	obl
19	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 lion	det
21	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dealt	obj
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 kick	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 kick	det
24	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 kick	amod
25	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dealt	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 shrieked	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shrieked	nsubj
28	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dealt	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 pain	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pain	det
31	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shrieked	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	the donkey			moment; time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	prepare	to-infinitive	the donkey not said here	donkey				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
3	jump	gerund			one side			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory
4	deal	past	jumping	the lion			such hard kick obl	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme
5	shriek	past	lion				with the pain	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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