The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 31
And then seeing a spot where the clematis grew less thickly than in other places, she jumped lightly over.
Who acts: clematis · What happens: see, grow, jump over · To what, where: spot
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clematis), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 jumped | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 seeing | advmod |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 jumped | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeing | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 grew | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clematis | det |
| 8 | clematis | clematis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spot | acl:relcl |
| 10 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 thickly | advmod |
| 11 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 places | case |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 places | case |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 places | amod |
| 15 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 thickly | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 jumped | nsubj |
| 18 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 18 jumped | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADV | _ | 18 jumped | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | clematis not said here | a spot | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the clematis | thickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | jump over | past | clematis | lightly, over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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