The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 85
Peronnik did as she bade him, and by the help of his arm she jumped nimbly on to the back of the colt.
Who acts: Peronnik, river · What happens: do, bade, jump, help · To what, where: Peronnik, arm
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, river), 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 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 bade | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | nsubj |
| 5 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bade | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jumped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 jumped | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 help | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 help | det |
| 11 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jumped | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 arm | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arm | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 help | nmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 jumped | nsubj |
| 16 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 17 | nimbly | nimbly | ADV | _ | 18 on | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 jumped | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 back | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 back | det |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jumped | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 colt | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 colt | det |
| 24 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 back | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Peronnik | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bade | past | river | Peronnik | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | river | by the help of Peronnik's arm; to the back of the colt result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient by help=Extent to back=Result | ||||
| 4 | help | Peronnik's arm | nom help «act 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 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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