The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 58
He jumped up, full of rage, and chased away the big cat, and then he turned to comfort the little one, when his heart nearly burst with joy to find that it was Koma.
Who acts: Gon, heart, joy · What happens: jump up, chase away, turn, comfort, find, be · To what, where: little one, Koma
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gon, heart, joy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 jumped | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chased | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chased | cc |
| 10 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 chased | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cat | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cat | amod |
| 14 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 away | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 turned | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 comfort | mark |
| 21 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 turned | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 comfort | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 find | punct |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 find | advmod |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 find | nsubj |
| 29 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 30 burst | advmod |
| 30 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 heart | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 joy | case |
| 32 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 burst | nmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 find | mark |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 comfort | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 Koma | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 Koma | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 Koma | cop |
| 38 | Koma | Koma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 find | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | Gon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | chase away | participle | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | Gon | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | comfort | to-infinitive | Gon not said here | the little one | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | Gon's heart and burst with joy | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | joy | Koma | tree rules |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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