The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 112
All of a sudden--crash, crash! with a bound it turned over, upside down, and lay like a mountain on the top of him.
Who acts: crash · What happens: turn over, lay · To what, where: upside, top
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 (crash), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 crash | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 crash | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crash | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crash | amod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 sudden | punct |
| 6 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crash | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crash | punct |
| 8 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 crash | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bound | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bound | det |
| 12 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crash | nmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 turned | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 upside | punct |
| 17 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 upside | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lay | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lay | cc |
| 21 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 turned | conj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 mountain | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 mountain | det |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 top | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn over | past | all crash with a bound | upside | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | all crash with a bound not said here | the top of other | like a mountain | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on top=Destination |
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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