The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 80
The jackal fetched them out one by one till he had brought out nine, and he took the last one and brought it out again, so the whole ten seemed to be there, and the panther was quite satisfied.
Who acts: jackal, plenty, whole ten, panther · What happens: fetch out, bring out, take, seem, be · To what, where: lives, nine, last one, supper
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, whole ten, panther), 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 fetched | nsubj |
| 3 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fetched | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 fetched | compound:prt |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 fetched | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 brought | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | aux |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 fetched | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 brought | advmod |
| 14 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 brought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fetched | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 brought | cc |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 brought | compound:prt |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 brought | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seemed | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 seemed | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ten | det |
| 30 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ten | amod |
| 31 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 seemed | nsubj |
| 32 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 there | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 there | cop |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 seemed | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 satisfied | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 satisfied | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 panther | det |
| 39 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 satisfied | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 satisfied | cop |
| 41 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 42 satisfied | advmod |
| 42 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 seemed | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch out | past | the jackal | lives = life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring out | past · perfect | plenty | nine | out property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nine=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | past | plenty | the last one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring out | past | plenty not said here | supper | again | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | seem | past | the whole ten | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | the whole ten not said here | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the panther | satisfied property | tree rules |
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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