The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 58

As they approached the stream they saw something which looked like an enormous grasshopper springing toward the water as if it were going to jump in.

Who acts: roses, enormous grasshopper, stream · What happens: approach, see, look, spring, go, jump in · To what, where: stream, something, water

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 (roses, enormous grasshopper, stream), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 approached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stream	det
5	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stream	acl:relcl
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 saw	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 something	acl:relcl
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 grasshopper	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 grasshopper	det
13	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grasshopper	amod
14	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	obl
15	springing	spring	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 grasshopper	acl
16	toward	toward	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 springing	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 going	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 going	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 looked	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 jump	mark
25	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 jump	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	roses = rose	the stream			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Theme
2	see	past	roses = rose	something			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
3	look	past				like a enormous grasshopper	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	spring	gerund	a enormous grasshopper not said here		the water		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward water=Trajectory
5	go	past · progressive	stream				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	jump in	to-infinitive	stream not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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