The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 18
And the goblins jumped up, and flew like the wind.
Who acts: goblins · What happens: jump up, fly
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblins), 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 | _ | 4 jumped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goblins | det |
| 3 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 jumped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flew | cc |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 wind | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | the goblins | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | the goblins not said here | like the wind | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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