The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 37
At last she leapt high in the air, and came down on top of Monadh the high hill, where the crag is.
Who acts: eldest · What happens: leapt, come down, be · To what, where: last, top, high hill
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leapt | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leapt | nsubj |
| 4 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leapt | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 high | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leapt | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Monadh | case |
| 16 | Monadh | Monadh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hill | det |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hill | amod |
| 19 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 is | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 is | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crag | det |
| 23 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 is | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hill | cop |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt | past | eldest = eld | last | high property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come down | past | eldest = eld not said here | top of Monadh | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the high hill | tree rules |
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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