The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 111

The creature jumped off the fire, and bounded about the room like a kitten, running up the walls and over the ceiling, till the old man was in an agony lest his pretty room should be spoilt.

Who acts: creature, old man · What happens: jump off, bound, run up, be, spoil · To what, where: fire, walls, agony

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, old man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bounded	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bounded	cc
9	bounded	bound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 jumped	conj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bounded	obl
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 kitten	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 kitten	det
15	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 room	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 running	punct
17	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bounded	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 running	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 walls	det
20	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 running	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ceiling	cc
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 ceiling	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ceiling	det
24	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walls	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 agony	punct
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 agony	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 agony	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 agony	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 agony	case
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 agony	det
33	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 spoilt	nsubj:pass
34	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	37 room	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 room	nmod:poss
36	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 room	amod
37	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 agony	nmod
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 spoilt	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 spoilt	aux:pass
40	spoilt	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 jumped	parataxis
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump off	past	the creature	the fire			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Trajectory
2	bound	participle	the creature not said here			about the room like a kitten	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Trajectory
3	run up	gerund	the creature not said here	the walls and the ceiling			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Trajectory
4	is	past	the old man		a agony	lest man's pretty room	tree rules
5	spoil	should · passive		a agony			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: «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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