The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 100

“This is too much of a good thing!” he yelled, and springing up like a madman, he knocked his companion against the tree till he trembled.

Who acts: This, thing · What happens: be, yell, spring up, knock, tremble · To what, where: companion, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, thing), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 much	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 much	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 much	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 yelled	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 thing	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 much	nmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 much	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 much	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 yelled	nsubj
13	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 springing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 springing	cc
16	springing	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 yelled	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 springing	compound:prt
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 madman	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 madman	det
20	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 springing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knocked	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 knocked	nsubj
23	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 yelled	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 companion	nmod:poss
25	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knocked	obj
26	against	against	ADP	_	28 tree	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tree	det
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knocked	obl
29	till	till	SCONJ	_	31 trembled	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 trembled	nsubj
31	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knocked	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 yelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	This			of a good thing; much property	tree rules
2	yell speech: express	past	thing				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spring up	gerund	thing not said here			like a madman	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	knock	past	thing	thing's companion	the tree		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent companion=Theme against tree=Destination
5	tremble	past	thing				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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