The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 46
All the Turks jumped so high that their slippers flew above their heads; such a splendid glitter they had never seen before.
Who acts: Turks, slippers · What happens: jump, fly, not see · To what, where: heads, splendid glitter
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turks, slippers), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 jumped | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Turks | det |
| 3 | Turks | Turk | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 high | advmod |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jumped | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 flew | mark |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flew | nsubj |
| 10 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 high | advcl |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 heads | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heads | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flew | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 seen | punct |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 glitter | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 glitter | det |
| 17 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 glitter | amod |
| 18 | glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 seen | advmod |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 jumped | conj |
| 23 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 seen | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the Turks | high property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | Turks's slippers | Turks's heads | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above head=Location | ||||
| 3 | not see | past · perfect · passive | such splendid glitter | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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