The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 115
Up she jumped, seized her basket, and repeated the magic words, and behold! there lay a dress on the bed, shining as a star.
Who acts: Dotterine · What happens: jump, seize, repeat, lay, shine · To what, where: basket, magic words, dress, bed
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dotterine), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 basket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 repeated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 repeated | cc |
| 10 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 repeated | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 behold | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 behold | cc |
| 16 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 3 jumped | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 lay | advmod |
| 19 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dress | det |
| 21 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bed | det |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shining | punct |
| 26 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 lay | advcl |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 star | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 star | det |
| 29 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shining | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | Dotterine | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | Dotterine not said here | Dotterine's basket | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | repeat | past | Dotterine not said here | the magic words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | lay | infinitive | a dress | the bed; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dress=Theme on bed=Destination | ||||
| 5 | shine | gerund | as a star | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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