The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 86
The dwarf jumped up in great fright, but he hadn’t time to reach his place of retreat, for the bear was already close to him.
Who acts: dwarf, growl, bear · What happens: jump up, n't, reach, be · To what, where: great fright, place, growl
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 (dwarf, growl, bear), 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 dwarf | det |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 jumped | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fright | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fright | amod |
| 7 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 n’t | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 n’t | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 n’t | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 n’t | aux |
| 12 | n’t | n't | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 n’t | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 reach | mark |
| 15 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 place | nmod:poss |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reach | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 retreat | case |
| 19 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 close | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 close | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bear | det |
| 23 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 close | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 close | cop |
| 25 | already | already | ADV | _ | 26 close | advmod |
| 26 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 n’t | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 close | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | the dwarf | great fright | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | n't | past · perfect | growl | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | growl not said here | growl's place of retreat | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the bear | growl | close 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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