The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 39
Then the runner awoke, jumped up, and saw that his pitcher was empty and the King’s daughter far ahead.
Who acts: runner, pitcher · What happens: awake, jump up, see, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (runner, pitcher), 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 | 4 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 runner | det |
| 3 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | nsubj |
| 4 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 jumped | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 empty | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pitcher | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 empty | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 empty | cop |
| 15 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 daughter | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 empty | conj |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 ahead | advmod |
| 22 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 15 empty | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the runner | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump up | past | the runner not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the runner not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | wind's pitcher | ahead, empty property | tree rules |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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