The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 7
The dog was so delighted at his success that he jumped round, barking loudly, till the noise brought the old woman out of the house.
Who acts: dog, place, noise · What happens: be, jump, bark, bring · To what, where: success, old woman, house
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, place, noise), 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 | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 success | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 success | nmod:poss |
| 8 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 jumped | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 jumped | nsubj |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 12 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 jumped | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 barking | punct |
| 14 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 jumped | advcl |
| 15 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 14 barking | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 brought | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 noise | det |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 jumped | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woman | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 woman | amod |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dog | place's success | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | jump | past | place | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bark | gerund | place not said here | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | the noise | the old woman | the house | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent woman=Theme out house=Initial_Location |
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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