The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 6
As soon as he heard this he sprang out into the water with the ladle for the fishes, but he just got leave to stay there with them!
Who acts: he · What happens: hear, spring out, get, leave, stay · To what, where: this, water
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 sprang | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 heard | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sprang | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sprang | nsubj |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sprang | compound:prt |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ladle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ladle | det |
| 15 | ladle | ladle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 water | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 fishes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fishes | det |
| 18 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ladle | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 got | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 got | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 got | nsubj |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 got | advmod |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sprang | conj |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 got | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 stay | mark |
| 26 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 leave | advcl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 stay | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stay | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | he | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | spring out | past | he | the water with the ladle for the fishes | soon property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 3 | get | past | he | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | he not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stay | to-infinitive | he not said here | there | with eyes = eye | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=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 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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