The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 59

Then they were all delighted and in high spirits, took out their whip, and cracked so much money that it came jumping up from the ground.

Who acts: comrades, high spirits, money · What happens: be, take out, crack, come, jump up · To what, where: whip, much money, ground

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrades, high spirits, money), 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	5 delighted	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 delighted	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 delighted	advmod
5	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 spirits	case
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spirits	amod
9	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spirits	punct
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delighted	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 took	compound:prt
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 whip	nmod:poss
14	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cracked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cracked	cc
17	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 money	amod
20	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cracked	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cracked	advcl
24	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 came	xcomp
25	up	up	ADV	_	24 jumping	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 jumping	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	comrades = comrade			then	all, delighted property	tree rules
2	take out	past	high spirits	comrades's whip				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Theme
3	crack	past	high spirits not said here	much money				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme
4	come	past	money					tree rules
5	jump up	gerund	money not said here		the ground			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ground=Trajectory

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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