The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 2
The sight of them so delighted Helga that she nearly sprang from her saddle with a shriek of joy.
Who acts: sight · What happens: spring, sight, shriek · To what, where: saddle, horses, joy
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sight | nmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 Helga | advmod |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Helga | amod |
| 7 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sight | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 sprang | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sprang | nsubj |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 sprang | advmod |
| 11 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 saddle | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 shriek | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shriek | det |
| 17 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 joy | case |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shriek | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the sight of horses delighted Helga | sight's saddle | with a shriek of joy; nearly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from saddle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sight | horses = horse | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | shriek | joy | nom shriek «communication 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 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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