The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 8
He jumped up and went to the corner, and by the light of the lamp that he always kept burning he saw that the kettle had become a tanuki, which was running round after his tail.
Who acts: Jimmu, kettle, tanuki · What happens: jump up, go, keep, burn, see, become · To what, where: corner, tanuki, lamp · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jimmu, kettle, tanuki), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 jumped | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 corner | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 corner | det |
| 8 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 light | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 light | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 light | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 light | det |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lamp | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lamp | det |
| 16 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 light | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 kept | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kept | nsubj |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 kept | advmod |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | advcl |
| 21 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 kept | xcomp |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 burning | ccomp |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 become | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 kettle | det |
| 26 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 become | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 become | aux |
| 28 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 saw | ccomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 tanuki | det |
| 30 | tanuki | tanuki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 become | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 running | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 running | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 running | aux |
| 34 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 tanuki | acl |
| 35 | round | round | ADV | _ | 34 running | advmod |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 tail | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 tail | nmod:poss |
| 38 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 running | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | Jimmu | by the light of the lamp | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by light=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Jimmu not said here | the corner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | keep | past | Jimmu | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | Jimmu not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | past | Jimmu | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | become | past · perfect | the kettle | a tanuki | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | run | past · progressive | a tanuki | after Jimmu's tail | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | light | the lamp | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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