The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 52
Then the jackal nodded good-bye, and went quickly after the heron.
Who acts: jackal · What happens: nod, go
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 nodded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jackal | det |
| 3 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nodded | nsubj |
| 4 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nodded | xcomp |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| 7 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 4 nodded | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nodded | conj |
| 11 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 heron | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heron | det |
| 14 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the jackal | then | good property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | go | past | the jackal not said here | after the heron | quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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