The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 92
The jackal, however, had got a good start, and he reached a place where a swarm of bees deposited their honey in the cleft of a rock.
Who acts: jackal, thing, swarm · What happens: get, reach, deposit · To what, where: good start, place, honey, cleft
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, thing, swarm), 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 | 7 got | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 jackal | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 start | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 start | amod |
| 10 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 deposited | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 swarm | det |
| 19 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deposited | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bees | case |
| 21 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 swarm | nmod |
| 22 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 honey | nmod:poss |
| 24 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deposited | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 cleft | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cleft | det |
| 27 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deposited | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 rock | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 rock | det |
| 30 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cleft | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | the jackal | a good start | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer start=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reach | past | thing | a place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deposit | past | a swarm of bees | Jackal's honey | the cleft of a rock | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent honey=Theme in cleft=Destination |
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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