The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 15
Before it was light next day, the king’s son jumped out of bed and ran down to the loch.
Who acts: blood, son · What happens: be, jump out, run down · To what, where: light next day, bed
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blood, son), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 day | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 day | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | cop |
| 4 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jumped | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jumped | nsubj |
| 12 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jumped | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 jumped | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 ran | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 loch | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 loch | det |
| 21 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | blood | light next day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jump out | past | the king's son | bed | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | run down | past | the king's son not said here | to the loch result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to loch=Result |
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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