The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 52
At last he jumped up, and caught the razor out of the barber’s hand, exclaiming:
Who acts: man · What happens: jump up, catch, exclaim · To what, where: last, razor, hand
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jumped | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 jumped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 caught | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 caught | cc |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 razor | det |
| 10 | razor | razor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 barber | det |
| 14 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 barber | case |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 exclaiming | punct |
| 18 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 caught | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | man | last | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | man not said here | the razor | the barber's hand | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent razor=Theme | |||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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