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The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 60

Leaping with his Spanish cat upon the balcony, he snatched Bellissima from the Queen’s arms, and before any of the ladies of the Court could stop him he had sprung upon the roof of the palace and disappeared with his prize.

Who acts: much · What happens: leap, snatch, stop, spring, disappear · To what, where: balcony, Bellissima, arms, much, roof

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much), 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

advclcasenmod:possamodoblcasedetoblpunctnsubjobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctcccaseoblcasedetnmodcasedetnmodauxparataxisobjnsubjauxxcompcasedetoblcasedetnmodccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootLeapingVERBwithADPhisPRONSpanishADJcatNOUNuponADPtheDETbalconyNOUN,PUNCThePRONsnatchedVERBBellissimaPROPNfromADPtheDETQueenPROPN’sPARTarmsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbeforeADPanyDETofADPtheDETladiesNOUNofADPtheDETCourtNOUNcouldAUXstopVERBhimPRONhePRONhadAUXsprungVERBuponADPtheDETroofNOUNofADPtheDETpalaceNOUNandCCONJdisappearedVERBwithADPhisPRONprizeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1LeapingleapVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 snatchedadvcl
2withwithADP_5 catcase
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 catnmod:poss
4SpanishSpanishADJDegree=Pos5 catamod
5catcatNOUNNumber=Sing1 Leapingobl
6uponuponADP_8 balconycase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 balconydet
8balconybalconyNOUNNumber=Sing1 Leapingobl
9,,PUNCT_1 Leapingpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 snatchednsubj
11snatchedsnatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12BellissimaBellissimaPROPNNumber=Sing11 snatchedobj
13fromfromADP_17 armscase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 Queendet
15QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing17 armsnmod:poss
16’s'sPART_15 Queencase
17armsarmNOUNNumber=Plur11 snatchedobl
18,,PUNCT_29 stoppunct
19andandCCONJ_29 stopcc
20beforebeforeADP_21 anycase
21anyanyDETPronType=Ind29 stopobl
22ofofADP_24 ladiescase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 ladiesdet
24ladiesladyNOUNNumber=Plur21 anynmod
25ofofADP_27 Courtcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 Courtdet
27CourtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing24 ladiesnmod
28couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin29 stopaux
29stopstopVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin11 snatchedparataxis
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 stopobj
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 sprungnsubj
32hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 sprungaux
33sprungspringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass29 stopxcomp
34uponuponADP_36 roofcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 roofdet
36roofroofNOUNNumber=Sing33 sprungobl
37ofofADP_39 palacecase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 palacedet
39palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing36 roofnmod
40andandCCONJ_41 disappearedcc
41disappeareddisappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 snatchedconj
42withwithADP_44 prizecase
43hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs44 prizenmod:poss
44prizeprizeNOUNNumber=Sing41 disappearedobl
45..PUNCT_11 snatchedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1leapgerundmuch not said herethe balconywith much's Spanish catvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon balcony=Trajectory
2snatchpastmuchBellissimathe Queen's armsvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bellissima=Theme from arm=Source
3stopcouldmuchbefore anytree rules
4springpast · perfectmuchthe roof of the palacevn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon roof=Trajectory
5disappearpastmuch not said herewith much's prizevn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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