Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 57
I jumped off the bed, and into the box they all had to go, some on their heads, some on their feet.
Who acts: I, dolls · What happens: jump off, have, go · To what, where: bed, box
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dolls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:10326): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bed | det |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 box | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 box | det |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 they | det |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 some | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 had | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 heads | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heads | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 some | orphan |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 some | punct |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 some | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 some | orphan |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump off | past | I | the bed | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | have | past | dolls = doll | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | dolls = doll not said here | the box | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into box=Initial_Location |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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