More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 115
And the young prince was there again, and this time he put a guard at the door to keep her, but she took a hop and a run and jumped over their heads, and as she did so, down fell one of her glass slippers.
Who acts: young prince, Prince, Rushen, glass · What happens: be, put, keep, take, jump, do · To what, where: guard, door, Rushen, hop, heads, one
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young prince, Prince, Rushen, glass), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 there | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prince | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 put | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 guard | det |
| 15 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 keep | mark |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 put | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 keep | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hop | det |
| 27 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 run | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 run | det |
| 30 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hop | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 jumped | cc |
| 32 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 took | conj |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 heads | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heads | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 jumped | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 did | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 did | cc |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 did | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 did | nsubj |
| 40 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | conj |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 did | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fell | punct |
| 43 | down | down | ADV | _ | 44 fell | advmod |
| 44 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | conj |
| 45 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 fell | obj |
| 46 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 49 slippers | mark |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 glass | nmod:poss |
| 48 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 slippers | nsubj |
| 49 | slippers | slipper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 one | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young prince | again | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | past | Prince | a guard | the door | time | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme at door=Destination | ||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Rushen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Rushen | a hop and a run | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hop=Theme | ||||
| 5 | jump | past | Rushen not said here | hop's heads | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | do | past | Rushen | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | fall | past | Prince not said here | one | down property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result | |||
| 8 | slipper | present | Rushen's glass | 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: «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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