The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 102
The young man nearly jumped into the air for joy, but, remembering the rules of the house, he managed to keep still.
Who acts: young man, maiden, house · What happens: jump, remember, manage, keep, rule · To what, where: air, rules
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, maiden, house), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 jumped | advmod |
| 5 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumped | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jumped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 managed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 managed | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remembering | punct |
| 14 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 managed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rules | det |
| 16 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 remembering | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rules | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remembering | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 managed | nsubj |
| 22 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 jumped | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 managed | xcomp |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 keep | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the young man | into the air result; for joy; nearly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 2 | remember | gerund | maiden not said here | the rules of the house | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | ||||
| 3 | manage | past | maiden | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | maiden not said here | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | rule | the house | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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