The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 106
The smith sprang up out of the chest and fell on his knees and thanked God.
Who acts: smith · What happens: spring up, fall, thank · To what, where: chest, knees, God
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smith | det |
| 2 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sprang | compound:prt |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 chest | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chest | det |
| 8 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 knees | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 knees | nmod:poss |
| 13 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thanked | cc |
| 15 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thanked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the smith | the chest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out chest=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the smith not said here | smith's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | the smith not said here | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
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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