The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 65
As they did not reach as high as the table, they were often obliged to jump and hop right on to the top to get at the dishes.
Who acts: dishes · What happens: not reach, oblige, jump, hop, get · To what, where: high, dishes, top
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dishes), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 reach | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reach | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reach | advmod |
| 5 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 obliged | advcl |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reach | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 table | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 high | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 obliged | aux:pass |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 obliged | advmod |
| 15 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 jump | mark |
| 17 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 obliged | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hop | cc |
| 19 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 jump | conj |
| 20 | right | right | ADV | _ | 21 on | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 hop | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 top | det |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hop | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 get | mark |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hop | advcl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 dishes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dishes | det |
| 29 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 get | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach | past · do-support | dishes = dish | high | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent high=Theme | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | dishes = dish | often property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | jump | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | hop | infinitive | the top | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | the dishes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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