The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 71
The head jumped off, saying the while, ‘Well, I’m done for now!’ and rolled far away into the sea.
Who acts: head, I · What happens: jump off, say, do, roll · To what, where: sea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (head, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 jumped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 jumped | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saying | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 11 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 15 done | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Well | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 14 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 now | case |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 done | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rolled | cc |
| 21 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 rolled | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rolled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump off | past | the head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the head not said here | while | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | present · passive | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | roll | past | the head not said here | the sea | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination |
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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