The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 42

The end of the beard was jammed into a cleft of the tree, and the little man sprang about like a dog on a chain, and didn’t seem to know what he was to do.

Who acts: little man, man · What happens: jam, spring, not seem, know, be · To what, where: end, cleft · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 end	det
2	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jammed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 beard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beard	det
5	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jammed	aux:pass
7	jammed	jam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 cleft	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cleft	det
10	cleft	cleft	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jammed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cleft	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sprang	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sprang	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprang	nsubj
19	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jammed	parataxis
20	about	about	ADV	_	19 sprang	advmod
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 dog	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dog	det
23	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprang	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 chain	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chain	det
26	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dog	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seem	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seem	cc
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 seem	aux
30	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 seem	advmod
31	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 sprang	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 know	mark
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seem	xcomp
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 do	obj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 do	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 do	cop
37	to	to	PART	_	38 do	mark
38	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 know	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 jammed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jam	past · passive		the end of the beard	a cleft of the tree		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into cleft=Destination
2	spring	past	the little man			like a dog on a chain; about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not seem	past · do-support	the little man not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	know	to-infinitive	the little man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	is	past	man			do property	tree rules

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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