The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 75
Lightly as a deer he jumped from his bed, and began to turn head over heels and to perform all sorts of antics, so as to make sure that his foot was in truth as well as it looked.
Who acts: king, foot · What happens: jump, begin, turn, perform, make, be · To what, where: bed, head, heels, sorts, truth, antics
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, foot), 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 | Lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 6 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 deer | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 deer | det |
| 4 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 jumped | nsubj |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bed | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 turn | mark |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turn | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 heels | case |
| 17 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turn | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 perform | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 perform | mark |
| 20 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 turn | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 sorts | det |
| 22 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 perform | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 antics | case |
| 24 | antics | antic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sorts | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 make | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 make | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 make | mark |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 make | mark |
| 29 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 jumped | advcl |
| 30 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 make | xcomp |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 truth | mark |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 foot | nmod:poss |
| 33 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 truth | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 truth | cop |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 truth | case |
| 36 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sure | ccomp |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 41 looked | cc |
| 38 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 as | fixed |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 looked | mark |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 looked | nsubj |
| 41 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 truth | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | king | king's bed | as a deer; lightly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bed=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | begin | past | king not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | turn | to-infinitive | king not said here | head | heels | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme over heel=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | perform | to-infinitive | king not said here | all sorts of antics | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | king not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | is | past | king's foot | truth | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | look | past | foot | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | sort | antics | nom sort «cognition 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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