The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 29
And flack! flick! like lightening a white switch sprang out of the bag, and gave such hearty blows to the innkeeper and his wife, and to Father Grumbler into the bargain, that they all jumped as high as feathers when a mattress is shaken.
Who acts: you, white switch, such hearty, directions · What happens: flack, lighten, spring out, give, blow, jump · To what, where: flick, bag, innkeeper, Father, mattress
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, white switch, such hearty, directions), 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 | _ | 2 flack | cc |
| 2 | flack | flack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 flack | punct |
| 4 | flick | flick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flack | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 flack | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 lightening | mark |
| 7 | lightening | lighten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 flack | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 switch | det |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 switch | amod |
| 10 | switch | switch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | nsubj |
| 11 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lightening | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 bag | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bag | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bag | det |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sprang | parataxis |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hearty | amod |
| 20 | hearty | hearty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blows | nsubj |
| 21 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 gave | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 innkeeper | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 innkeeper | det |
| 24 | innkeeper | innkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blows | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wife | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 innkeeper | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 jumped | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 jumped | cc |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Father | case |
| 31 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 jumped | obl |
| 32 | Grumbler | Grumbler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Father | flat |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 bargain | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bargain | det |
| 35 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Father | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 jumped | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 jumped | mark |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 jumped | nsubj |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 they | det |
| 40 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gave | conj |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | _ | 42 high | advmod |
| 42 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 jumped | xcomp |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 feathers | case |
| 44 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 high | obl |
| 45 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 49 shaken | mark |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 mattress | det |
| 47 | mattress | mattress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 shaken | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 shaken | aux:pass |
| 49 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 jumped | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flack | imperative | you not said here | flick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lighten | gerund | you not said here | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | spring out | past | a white switch | the bag | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bag=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | blow | present | such hearty | the innkeeper and hearty's wife | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to innkeeper=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | jump | past | directions = direction | Father into the bargain | high property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result | |||
| 7 | shake | present · passive | a mattress | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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