The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 77
Then he jumped high into the air, and landed safe on the other side, and after turning round to be sure that there was no chance of anyone pursuing him, trotted happily home to his grandmother.
Who acts: Hare, chance, anyone · What happens: jump, land, turn round, be, pursue, trot · To what, where: air, other side, Hare
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, chance, anyone), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 landed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 landed | cc |
| 10 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 landed | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 side | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 side | amod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 landed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 trotted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 trotted | cc |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 turning | mark |
| 19 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 trotted | advcl |
| 20 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 turning | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sure | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sure | cop |
| 23 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 turning | xcomp |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 was | mark |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sure | ccomp |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 chance | det |
| 28 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 anyone | case |
| 30 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 chance | nmod |
| 31 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 anyone | acl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 pursuing | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turning | punct |
| 34 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 35 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 34 trotted | advmod |
| 36 | home | home | ADV | _ | 34 trotted | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 grandmother | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 39 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 trotted | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | Hare | then | into the air result; high property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | |||
| 2 | land | past | Hare not said here | the other side | safe property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on side=Destination | |||
| 3 | turn round | gerund | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | past | no chance of anyone | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pursue | gerund | Hare | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 7 | trot | past | Hare not said here | to Hare's grandmother result; happily, home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to grandmother=Result | ||||
| 8 | chance | anyone | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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