The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 62

As he jumped on to the pier his eye caught the notice about the princess, and he thought, ‘He has undertaken to find her, and has certainly lost his head.

Who acts: man, eye · What happens: jump on, catch, think, undertake, find, lose · To what, where: notice, eye, head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, eye), 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	SCONJ	_	3 jumped	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 jumped	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 pier	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pier	det
7	pier	pier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	obl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eye	nmod:poss
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	nsubj
10	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pier	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 notice	det
12	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 caught	obj
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 princess	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 notice	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thought	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 undertaken	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 undertaken	punct
22	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 undertaken	nsubj
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 undertaken	aux
24	undertaken	undertake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 thought	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 find	mark
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 undertaken	xcomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 find	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lost	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lost	cc
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 lost	aux
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	32 lost	advmod
32	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 undertaken	parataxis
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lost	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump on	past	man		to the pier result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pier=Result
2	catch	past	man's eye	the notice	about the princess	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
3	think speech: other	past	man			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	undertake	present · perfect	man			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	find	to-infinitive	man not said here	eye		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
6	lose	present · perfect		man's head	certainly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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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