The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 102

The Shifty Lad jumped for joy when his mother told him where she had been.

Who acts: Shifty Lad, mother, woman · What happens: jump, tell, be · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shifty Lad, mother, woman), 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	3 Lad	det
2	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Lad	amod
3	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	nsubj
4	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 joy	case
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumped	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jumped	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 been	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 been	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 been	aux
15	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	jump	past	the Shifty Lad		for joy	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	son's mother	son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be	past · perfect	woman			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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