The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 102
They yelled in the most ghastly manner, jumped upon his fire, scattered it all, and tried to put it out.
Who acts: nook, friend · What happens: yell, jump, scatter, try, put out, fire · To what, where: ghastly manner, fire
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nook, friend), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 yelled | nsubj |
| 2 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 manner | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 manner | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 ghastly | advmod |
| 6 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 manner | amod |
| 7 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yelled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 jumped | punct |
| 9 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 yelled | parataxis |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fire | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jumped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scattered | punct |
| 14 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 jumped | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 scattered | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 it | det |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tried | cc |
| 19 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 yelled | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 put | mark |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tried | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 put | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 yelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | past | nook | the ghastly manner | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | friend's fire | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fire=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | scatter | past | fire | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | try | past | nook not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | put out not said to happen | to-infinitive | nook not said here | fire | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 6 | fire | friend | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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