The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 75
Happily Jonas heard his cry of distress, for Walter was quite near the mill now, and he ran and helped him up.
Who acts: Jonas, Walter, distress · What happens: hear, be, run, help up, cry · To what, where: cry, Walter
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jonas, Walter, distress), 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 | Happily | happily | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Jonas | Jonas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cry | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 distress | case |
| 7 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mill | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 mill | case |
| 10 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mill | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mill | cop |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 mill | advmod |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 mill | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mill | det |
| 15 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | conj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 mill | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 helped | cc |
| 22 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ran | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 helped | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 helped | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Jonas | Walter's cry of distress | happily property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | Walter | now | for the mill | tree rules | |||
| 3 | run | past | Walter | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help up | past | Walter not said here | Walter | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | cry | distress | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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