The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 25
But the moment the Prince closed his eyes, up jumped the beast and took to flight.
Who acts: moment · What happens: close, jump, take · To what, where: eyes, beast
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 closed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closed | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | appos |
| 6 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 closed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumped | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 jumped | advmod |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 closed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beast | det |
| 13 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jumped | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 jumped | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 flight | case |
| 17 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | the moment | Prince's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | the moment not said here | the beast | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beast=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the moment not said here | to flight result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to flight=Result |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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