The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 71
He who could jump over the boat without so much as touching it with his heel was to be the winner, and would get a large sum of money as the prize.
Who acts: Andras · What happens: jump, touch, be, get, sum · To what, where: boat, winner, large sum, money
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jump | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 jump | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 jump | aux |
| 4 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | obl |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 much | case |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jump | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 touching | mark |
| 12 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 jump | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 touching | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 heel | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heel | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heel | heel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 winner | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 winner | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 winner | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 winner | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 winner | det |
| 21 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touching | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 jump | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sum | det |
| 27 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sum | amod |
| 28 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 money | case |
| 30 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sum | nmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 prize | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 prize | det |
| 33 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jump | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | could | Andras | the boat | without much | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over boat=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | touch | gerund | Andras not said here | boat | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the winner | with Andras's heel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | would | Andras not said here | a large sum of money | as the prize | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sum=Stimulus as prize=Attribute | |||
| 5 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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