The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 147

At this she turned a complete somersault, and threw the Irishman off into the sea, where he fell into the bay that was right in front of the King’s Palace.

Who acts: noise, Irishman, bay · What happens: turn, throw off, fall, be · To what, where: complete somersault, this, Irishman, sea, bay, front

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, Irishman, bay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3246): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 turned	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 somersault	det
6	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 somersault	amod
7	somersault	somersault	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 threw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 threw	cc
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Irishman	det
12	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obj
13	off	off	ADV	_	10 threw	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 sea	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sea	det
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fell	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 fell	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fell	nsubj
20	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sea	acl:relcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 bay	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bay	det
23	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fell	obl
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 front	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 front	cop
26	right	right	ADV	_	28 front	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 front	case
28	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bay	acl:relcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 Palace	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Palace	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 King	case
33	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 front	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	noise	a complete somersault	this		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme
2	throw off	past	noise not said here	the Irishman		into the sea result; off property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer irishman=Theme into sea=Result
3	fall	past	Irishman			into the bay result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into bay=Result
4	is	past	the bay		front	of the King's Palace; right 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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