The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 268
Now it happened that as they were going down the hill they stumbled over a bush, and jolted the coffin so violently that the poisonous bit of apple Snowdrop had swallowed fell out of her throat.
Who acts: it, servants, Snowdrop, poisonous bit · What happens: happen, go down, stumble, jolt, swallow, fall · To what, where: hill, bush, coffin, poisonous bit, throat
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, servants, Snowdrop, poisonous bit), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stumbled | nsubj |
| 13 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hill | acl:relcl |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 bush | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bush | det |
| 16 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stumbled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 jolted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 jolted | cc |
| 19 | jolted | jolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coffin | det |
| 21 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jolted | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 violently | advmod |
| 23 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 19 jolted | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 fell | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bit | det |
| 26 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bit | amod |
| 27 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fell | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 apple | case |
| 29 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bit | nmod |
| 30 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 swallowed | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 swallowed | aux |
| 32 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 bit | acl:relcl |
| 33 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 jolted | advcl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 throat | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 throat | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 throat | nmod:poss |
| 37 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fell | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go down | past · progressive | servants = servant | the hill | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent | ||||
| 3 | stumble | past | servants = servant | the hill not said here | a bush | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme | |||
| 4 | jolt | past | the coffin | violently property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus coffin=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | swallow | past · perfect | Snowdrop | the poisonous bit of apple not said here | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fall | past | the poisonous bit of apple | SNOWDROP's throat | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out throat=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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