The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 56
The jackal answered, ‘I always turn to this side.’
Who acts: jackal, I · What happens: answer, turn · To what, where: side
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, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jackal | det |
| 2 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 turn | advmod |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 side | det |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the jackal | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | present | I | this side | always property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=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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