The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 98
But Paul jumped underneath, and gave an upward cut so that six of the heads went rolling down.
Who acts: Paul, six · What happens: jump, give, go, roll down · To what, where: upward cut
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, six), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 jumped | cc |
| 2 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cut | det |
| 9 | upward | upward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cut | amod |
| 10 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 six | det |
| 13 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 went | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heads | det |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 six | nmod |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | advcl |
| 18 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 went | xcomp |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 rolling | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | Paul | underneath property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Paul not said here | a upward cut | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | that six of the heads | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | roll down | gerund | that six of the heads not said here | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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