The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 69
That is the very thing,' laughed he, 'I will make him jump over that boat.'
Who acts: That, I, Andras · What happens: be, laugh, make, jump · To what, where: thing, Andras, boat
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I, Andras), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 thing | advmod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
| 8 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laughed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 laughed | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 boat | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 boat | det |
| 19 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jump | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | the thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | That not said here | Andras | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | future | I | Andras | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | jump | infinitive | Andras not said here | that boat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over boat=Trajectory |
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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