The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 42
‘The ball has nearly jumped out of my bosom!
Who acts: ball, my · What happens: have, jump out, bosom · To what, where: bosom
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 (ball, my), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ball | det |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ball | acl:relcl |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 6 jumped | advmod |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 bosom | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bosom | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the ball not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | jump out | past | the ball | my bosom | nearly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bosom=Theme | |||
| 3 | bosom | my | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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