The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 9
After he grew weary of that, he ran on the balcony, where he turned several somersaults, from pure gladness of heart.
Who acts: Jimmu · What happens: grow, run, turn · To what, where: balcony, several somersaults, pure gladness
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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 grew | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | advcl |
| 4 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 weary | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 balcony | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 balcony | det |
| 12 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 turned | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 somersaults | amod |
| 18 | somersaults | somersault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turned | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gladness | punct |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 gladness | case |
| 21 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gladness | amod |
| 22 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gladness | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Jimmu | weary property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Jimmu | the balcony | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on balcony=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | Jimmu | several somersaults | pure gladness of heart | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme from gladness=Trajectory |
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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