The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 81
And springing into the air, amidst howls of applause, he came down head-foremost, and dived to the bottom.
Who acts: Wolf, applause · What happens: spring, come down, dive, howl · To what, where: air, bottom
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, applause), 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 | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 2 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 came | advcl |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 springing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 howls | punct |
| 7 | amidst | amidst | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 howls | amod |
| 8 | howls | howl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 air | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 applause | case |
| 10 | applause | applause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 howls | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 springing | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foremost | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 head | punct |
| 17 | foremost | foremost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dived | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dived | cc |
| 20 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 bottom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bottom | det |
| 23 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dived | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | gerund | Wolf not said here | the air and amidst howls of applause | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come down | past | Wolf | down, foremost property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dive | past | Wolf not said here | the bottom | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Location | ||||
| 4 | howl | applause | nom howl «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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