The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 84
The following day the same thing happened, and the next and the next and the next, till at length there was not even one left, and the rest of the day the jackal busied himself with digging a large hole at the back of the den.
Who acts: following day, rest · What happens: follow, happen, leave, busy, dig · To what, where: rest, large hole
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 (following day, rest), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 next | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 next | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 next | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 happened | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 next | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 next | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 next | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 next | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 next | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 next | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 length | punct |
| 19 | till | till | ADP | _ | 21 length | case |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 length | case |
| 21 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | conj |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 length | acl:relcl |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 one | advmod |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 one | advmod |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 was | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 one | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 busied | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 busied | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rest | det |
| 31 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 busied | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 day | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 day | det |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rest | nmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 jackal | det |
| 36 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 day | nmod |
| 37 | busied | busy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | conj |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 busied | obj |
| 39 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 40 digging | mark |
| 40 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 busied | advcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 hole | det |
| 42 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hole | amod |
| 43 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 digging | obj |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 back | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 back | det |
| 46 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 digging | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 den | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 den | det |
| 49 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 back | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | happen | past | the following day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | busy | past | the rest of the day the jackal | rest | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dig | gerund | the rest of the day the jackal not said here | a large hole | at the back of the den | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Instrument at back=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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