The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 33
When he got home and went to his own room, his little dog Bibi ran to meet him, jumping round him with pleasure.
Who acts: Darling, little dog · What happens: get, go, run, meet, jump · To what, where: own room, Darling
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darling, little dog), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ran | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 room | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 room | amod |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dog | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dog | amod |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 15 | Bibi | Bibi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 dog | appos |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 meet | mark |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ran | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 meet | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 jumping | punct |
| 21 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 ran | advcl |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 jumping | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 pleasure | case |
| 25 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jumping | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Darling | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Darling not said here | Darling's own room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Darling's little dog | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | Darling's little dog not said here | Darling | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | jump | gerund | Darling's little dog not said here | round Darling; with pleasure | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round he=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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