The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 30

One day a jackal who was prowling about in search of a dinner came by chance to the foot of the rock where the dove’s nest was hidden away, and he suddenly bethought himself that if he could get nothing better he might manage to make a mouthful of one of the young doves.

Who acts: jackal, king · What happens: prowl, come, hide away, bethink, get, manage · To what, where: nest, king, nothing, mouthful, dinner

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (jackal, king), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 jackal	det
4	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 prowling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prowling	aux
7	prowling	prowl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 jackal	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 search	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 search	case
10	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prowling	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 dinner	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dinner	det
13	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 search	nmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 chance	case
16	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 foot	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 foot	det
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 chance	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 rock	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rock	det
22	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foot	nmod
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 hidden	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dove	det
25	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nest	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 dove	case
27	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hidden	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hidden	aux:pass
29	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 rock	acl:relcl
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 hidden	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bethought	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bethought	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bethought	nsubj
34	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	35 bethought	advmod
35	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
36	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 bethought	obj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 manage	mark
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 get	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 get	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 get	aux
41	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 manage	advcl
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 get	obj
43	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	41 get	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 manage	nsubj
45	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 manage	aux
46	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 bethought	advcl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 make	mark
48	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 manage	xcomp
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 mouthful	det
50	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 make	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 one	case
52	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 mouthful	nmod
53	of	of	ADP	_	56 doves	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 doves	det
55	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 doves	amod
56	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 one	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	prowl	past · progressive	a jackal			about search of a dinner	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about search=Trajectory
2	come	past	a jackal		day	by chance to the foot of the rock	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location
3	hide away	past · passive		the dove's nest		away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	bethink	past	king	king		suddenly property	tree rules
5	get a condition, not said to happen	could	king	nothing		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
6	manage	might	king				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	make	to-infinitive	king not said here	a mouthful of one of the young doves			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouthful=Product
8	search			a dinner			nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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