More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 17
Then another thrusts his arm out at other side of the bed, and the lad cuts that off.
Who acts: another, lad · What happens: thrust out, cut off · To what, where: arm, other side, that
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (another, lad), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thrusts | advmod |
| 2 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 3 thrusts | nsubj |
| 3 | thrusts | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arm | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrusts | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 thrusts | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrusts | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bed | det |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cuts | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cuts | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lad | det |
| 16 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cuts | nsubj |
| 17 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thrusts | conj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 cuts | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 cuts | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrusts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust out | present | another | lad's arm | other side of the bed | then | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||
| 2 | cut off | present | the lad | that | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector that=Eventuality |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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