The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 4

Then he jumped up and returned to the dust-heap.

Who acts: man · What happens: jump up, return

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	3 jumped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	up	up	ADP	_	3 jumped	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 returned	cc
6	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 heap	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heap	det
9	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heap	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 dust	punct
11	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returned	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump up	past	man				then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	past	man not said here					to the dust heap result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heap=Result

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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