The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 68

With one bound the jackal had seized him by the neck, and began to shake him.

Who acts: jackal · What happens: seize, begin, shake · To what, where: heron

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.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:3363): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 bound	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bound	nummod
3	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jackal	det
5	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	aux
7	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seized	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 neck	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 neck	det
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 shake	mark
16	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 shake	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past · perfect	the jackal	heron	with one bound; by the neck	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	begin	past	the jackal not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	shake	to-infinitive	the jackal not said here	heron		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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