The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 85
Luckily, the noise aroused the younger brother, who jumped up and snatched the stick from the farmer’s hand, saying:
Who acts: noise, younger brother · What happens: arouse, jump up, snatch, say · To what, where: younger brother, stick, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (noise, younger brother), 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 | Luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 5 aroused | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Luckily | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 noise | det |
| 4 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aroused | nsubj |
| 5 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aroused | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumped | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 jumped | nsubj |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 jumped | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 snatched | cc |
| 14 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 jumped | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stick | det |
| 16 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snatched | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 hand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 farmer | det |
| 19 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 farmer | case |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snatched | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saying | punct |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 aroused | advcl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | past | the noise | the younger brother | luckily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brother=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | jump up | past | the younger brother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | snatch | past | the younger brother not said here | the stick | the farmer's hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent stick=Theme from hand=Source | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the noise not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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