Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jumper, sentence 22
"Tap!" he sprang with a little crooked jump just into the lap of the Princess, who sat on a low golden stool.
Who acts: King, little crooked jump · What happens: spring, sit · To what, where: low golden stool
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jumper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, little crooked jump), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tap | punct |
| 2 | Tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tap | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tap | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 jump | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 jump | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 jump | amod |
| 10 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 jump | amod |
| 11 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | obl |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 lap | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 lap | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lap | det |
| 15 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jump | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Princess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lap | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sat | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 jump | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 stool | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 stool | det |
| 24 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stool | amod |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stool | amod |
| 26 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | King | with a little crooked jump into the lap of the Princess | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | a little crooked jump into the lap of the Princess | a low golden stool | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=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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