The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 73
He jumped up quite well again, he ran to the river, he looked into the water and saw that he was changed from a bird into a fine young man!
Who acts: Ant · What happens: jump up, run, look, see, change · To what, where: Ant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 jumped | compound:prt |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 jumped | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 jumped | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looked | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 changed | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 changed | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 changed | aux:pass |
| 24 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 bird | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bird | det |
| 27 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 changed | obl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 man | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 30 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 man | amod |
| 31 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 man | amod |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 changed | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | Ant | again | well property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | past | Ant | to the river result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Ant | into the water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Ant not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | change | past · passive | Ant | from a bird; into a fine young man result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: subject=Patient from bird=Initial_State into man=Result |
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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