Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 13
Then it was the king's turn to jump for joy; and he jumped so high, that his yellow cap, or turban, dropped off his head.
Who acts: cat, turn, yellow cap · What happens: be, jump, drop off · To what, where: turn, head
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, turn, yellow cap), 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 | 7 turn | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turn | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turn | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jump | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 jump | mark |
| 9 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jump | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 jumped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jumped | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 jumped | nsubj |
| 15 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 jump | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 high | advmod |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 jumped | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dropped | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 dropped | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cap | nmod:poss |
| 21 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cap | amod |
| 22 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dropped | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turban | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 turban | cc |
| 25 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cap | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cap | punct |
| 27 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 jumped | conj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 dropped | compound:prt |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dropped | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 jump | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | cat | the king's turn | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | jump | to-infinitive | the king's turn | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | turn | high property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drop off | past | king's yellow cap or turban | king's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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