The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 12
With one terrific yell the cat sprang up and instantly changed into a tall man, who, fixing his angry eyes upon the King, said:
Who acts: cat, tall man · What happens: spring up, change, fix, say · To what, where: angry eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, tall man), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 yell | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 yell | nummod |
| 3 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yell | amod |
| 4 | yell | yell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprang | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sprang | nsubj |
| 7 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 said | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 sprang | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 changed | cc |
| 10 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 11 changed | advmod |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sprang | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fixing | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 fixing | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fixing | punct |
| 19 | fixing | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 man | acl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fixing | obj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 King | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fixing | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the cat | with one terrific yell | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | participle | the cat not said here | into a tall man result; instantly property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into man=Result | ||||
| 3 | fix | gerund | a tall man | king's angry eyes | upon the King | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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