The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 78
So saying she trotted off, and the jackal marched into the cave, where he found ten little panthers, and instantly ate one up.
Who acts: jackal, plenty · What happens: say, trot off, march, find, eat up · To what, where: cave, ten little panthers, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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, plenty), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 trotted | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 trotted | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trotted | nsubj |
| 4 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 trotted | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 marched | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 marched | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jackal | det |
| 9 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marched | nsubj |
| 10 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trotted | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cave | det |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marched | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 found | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 marched | conj |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 panthers | nummod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 panthers | amod |
| 20 | panthers | panther | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 found | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ate | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ate | cc |
| 23 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 24 ate | advmod |
| 24 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trotted | conj |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 ate | obj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 ate | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | trot off | past | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | march | past | the jackal | into the cave result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cave=Result | ||||
| 4 | find | past | plenty | ten little panthers | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent panther=Topic | ||||
| 5 | eat up | past | one | instantly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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