The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 45
He then took hold of the knife, ripped up the leathern bag, and all the hasty-pudding tumbled out upon the floor.
Who acts: breakfast · What happens: take, rip up, tumble out, hold · To what, where: hold, leathern bag, hasty pudding, knife
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breakfast), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 knife | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knife | det |
| 7 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ripped | punct |
| 9 | ripped | rip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 ripped | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bag | det |
| 12 | leathern | leathern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bag | amod |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ripped | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pudding | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pudding | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 pudding | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pudding | det |
| 18 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pudding | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hasty | punct |
| 20 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 21 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 pudding | acl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 tumbled | compound:prt |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 floor | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 floor | det |
| 25 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tumbled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | breakfast | hold of the knife | then | all hasty pudding obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||
| 2 | rip up | participle | breakfast not said here | the leathern bag | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tumble out | participle | all hasty pudding not said here | upon the floor | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | hold | the knife | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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