More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 39
Great was his surprise to behold Habetrot dancing and jumping over her rock, singing all the time this ditty to her sisterhood, while they kept time with their spindles:--
Who acts: Great surprise, sisterhood · What happens: be, behold, jump, sing, keep · To what, where: Great surprise, Habetrot dancing, rock, ditty, sisterhood
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great surprise, sisterhood), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 surprise | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprise | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 behold | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 behold | case |
| 6 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | Habetrot | Habetrot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dancing | compound |
| 8 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 behold | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 jumping | cc |
| 10 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 behold | advcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 rock | nmod:poss |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumping | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 singing | punct |
| 15 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 jumping | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 time | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 singing | obj |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 ditty | det |
| 20 | ditty | ditty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 singing | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 sisterhood | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sisterhood | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sisterhood | sisterhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 singing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kept | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 kept | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 kept | nsubj |
| 27 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 behold | parataxis |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kept | obj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 spindles | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 spindles | nmod:poss |
| 31 | spindles | spindle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 kept | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 behold | punct |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 behold | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | troth's Great surprise | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | behold | infinitive | troth's Great surprise | Habetrot dancing | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dancing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | jump | gerund | troth's Great surprise not said here | surprise's rock | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | troth's Great surprise not said here | this ditty | surprise's sisterhood | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ditty=Topic to sisterhood=Recipient | ||
| 5 | keep | past | sisterhood | time | with sisterhood's spindles | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/39/