The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 200

“Atisha! atisha!” sneezed the old man, but he did not wake, and the shock made the bronze ring jump out of his mouth.

Who acts: Atisha, shock, bronze ring · What happens: sneeze, not wake, make, jump out · To what, where: old man, bronze ring, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Atisha, shock, bronze ring), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Atisha	punct
2	Atisha	Atisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sneezed	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Atisha	punct
4	atisha	atisha	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Atisha	flat:foreign
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Atisha	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Atisha	punct
7	sneezed	sneeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sneezed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wake	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 wake	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wake	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wake	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 wake	advmod
16	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sneezed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shock	det
20	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sneezed	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ring	det
23	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ring	amod
24	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
25	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	xcomp
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 mouth	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 mouth	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mouth	nmod:poss
29	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 jump	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sneezed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sneeze	past	Atisha	the old man	tree rules
2	not wake	past · do-support	Atisha		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	past	the shock	the bronze ring	tree rules
4	jump out	infinitive	the bronze ring not said here	shock's mouth	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Trajectory

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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