The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 16
The Hazel-nut child jumped quickly out of the egg-shell and ran out into the street.
Who acts: nut child · What happens: jump, run out · To what, where: egg shell, street
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nut child), 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 | 5 child | det |
| 2 | Hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nut | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hazel | punct |
| 4 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 child | compound |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | nsubj |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 jumped | advmod |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 shell | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shell | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shell | det |
| 11 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shell | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 egg | punct |
| 13 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 ran | compound:prt |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 street | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 street | det |
| 19 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the nut child | the egg shell | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shell=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run out | past | the nut child not said here | into the street result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into street=Result |
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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