The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 11
Then something jumped out so suddenly, that it nearly knocked them down, and as it fled past, they saw it was a sheep.
Who acts: something, threshold, horses · What happens: jump out, knock down, flee, see, be · To what, where: horses, sheep
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (something, threshold, horses), 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 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 jumped | compound:prt |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 suddenly | advmod |
| 6 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knocked | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 knocked | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knocked | nsubj |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 11 knocked | advmod |
| 11 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knocked | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 knocked | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 fled | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fled | nsubj |
| 18 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | advcl |
| 19 | past | past | ADV | _ | 18 fled | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fled | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sheep | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sheep | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sheep | det |
| 26 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump out | past | something | then | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | knock down | past | threshold | horses = horse | nearly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 3 | flee | past | threshold | past property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | horses = horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | threshold | a sheep | tree rules |
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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