The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 13
And when she caught sight of the big caskets which contained the presents, she clapped her hands for joy.
Who acts: nightingale, big caskets · What happens: catch, contain, clap, sight · To what, where: sight, presents, hands, big caskets
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightingale, big caskets), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clapped | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 caught | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 clapped | advcl |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 caskets | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 caskets | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 caskets | amod |
| 9 | caskets | casket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sight | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 contained | nsubj |
| 11 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caskets | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 presents | det |
| 13 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 contained | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 clapped | nsubj |
| 16 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clapped | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 clapped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 clapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | nightingale | sight of the big caskets | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | contain | past | the big caskets | the presents | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot present=Theme | ||||
| 3 | clap | past | nightingale | nightingale's hands | for joy | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||
| 4 | sight | the big caskets | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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