Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 96
The Turks, when they saw such a sight in the air, jumped so high that their slippers flew about their ears.
Who acts: Turks, slippers · What happens: see, jump, fly · To what, where: sight, air
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turks, slippers), 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 Turks | det |
| 2 | Turks | Turk | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 jumped | advcl |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 sight | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sight | det |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 jumped | punct |
| 14 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 high | advmod |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 jumped | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 flew | mark |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 flew | nsubj |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 jumped | advcl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 ears | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ears | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 flew | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Turks = turk | such sight | the air | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | jump | past | the Turks | high property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | Turks's slippers | about Turks's ears | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about ear=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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