The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 99
“Good day, mother,” said he, jumping down and opening the door.
Who acts: sun · What happens: say, jump down, open · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumping | punct |
| 11 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 jumping | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 opening | cc |
| 14 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 jumping | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 opening | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | jump down | gerund | sun not said here | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | gerund | sun not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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