The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 42
He had hardly got out of sight when again the jackal came creeping slowly round the foot of the rock.
Who acts: heron, jackal · What happens: get out, come, creep · To what, where: sight, foot
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 (heron, jackal), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 when | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 jackal | det |
| 11 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | advcl |
| 13 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 came | xcomp |
| 14 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 13 creeping | advmod |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foot | det |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 creeping | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rock | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rock | det |
| 20 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foot | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past · perfect | heron | sight | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | the jackal | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | creep | gerund | the jackal not said here | the foot of the rock | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round foot=Trajectory |
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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