The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 106
He jumped up in surprise, and at that moment in came the giant.
Who acts: youth · What happens: jump up, come · To what, where: surprise, giant
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 surprise | case |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 moment | nmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | youth | surprise | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in surprise=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | youth not said here | the giant | moment | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=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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