The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 47
On hearing this Houarn leaped into the air, as if he already felt himself frizzling in the golden pot.
Who acts: Houarn · What happens: hear, leap, feel, frizzle · To what, where: Houarn, air, golden pot
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houarn), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 leaped | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Houarn | det |
| 4 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 felt | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 felt | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 felt | advmod |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leaped | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 felt | obj |
| 16 | frizzling | frizzle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 felt | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pot | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pot | amod |
| 20 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 frizzling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this Houarn | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer houarn=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | leap | past | the air | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination | |||||
| 3 | feel a condition, not said to happen | past | Houarn | Houarn | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | frizzle | gerund | Houarn not said here | the golden pot | 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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