The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 22
Then he entered the Giant’s room and seized the harp and ran away with it; but as he jumped over the threshold the harp called out:
Who acts: Jack · What happens: enter, seize, run away, jump, call out · To what, where: Giant room, harp, threshold
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 5 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 room | amod |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Giant | case |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seized | cc |
| 9 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 harp | det |
| 11 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seized | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seized | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 ran | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ran | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 jumped | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 jumped | cc |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 jumped | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 jumped | nsubj |
| 21 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 threshold | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 threshold | det |
| 24 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jumped | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 harp | det |
| 26 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jumped | obl |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 harp | acl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 called | compound:prt |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Jack | the Giant room | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | |||
| 2 | seize | past | Jack not said here | the harp | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | Jack not said here | with harp; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material | ||||
| 4 | jump | past | Jack | the harp | the threshold | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over threshold=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | call out speech: assert | participle | the harp not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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