The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 6
So saying he sprang into the water, and yellow bubbles rose up all around him.
Who acts: Minnikin, yellow bubbles · What happens: say, spring, rise up · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minnikin, yellow bubbles), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sprang | advcl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rose | cc |
| 10 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bubbles | amod |
| 11 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rose | compound:prt |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 him | advmod |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rose | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Minnikin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spring | past | Minnikin | the water | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | ||||
| 3 | rise up | past | yellow bubbles | around Minnikin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around he=Location |
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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