The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 7
Then they begged their grandmother to jump over it too, end with a tremendous effort she managed to spring right over to the other side.
Who acts: nyamatsanes, she · What happens: beg, jump, manage, spring · To what, where: grandmother, end, ditch, tremendous effort, other side
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nyamatsanes, she), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 begged | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 jump | mark |
| 7 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | xcomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 jump | obl |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 jump | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 end | punct |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jump | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 effort | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 effort | det |
| 15 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 effort | amod |
| 16 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 managed | nsubj |
| 18 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 effort | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 spring | mark |
| 20 | spring | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 managed | xcomp |
| 21 | right | right | ADV | _ | 22 over | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 spring | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 side | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 side | amod |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | nyamatsanes = nyamatsane | nyamatsanes's grandmother | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | jump not said to happen | to-infinitive | nyamatsanes = nyamatsane not said here | end with a tremendous effort | ditch | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | manage | past | she | a tremendous effort not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spring | to-infinitive | she not said here | the other side | over property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination |
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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