The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 109
She turned round quickly and jumped up with a cry of horror.
Who acts: Mammy, horror · What happens: turn round, jump up, cry
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mammy, horror), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 jumped | cc |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 jumped | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cry | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cry | det |
| 10 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 horror | case |
| 12 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cry | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | Mammy | quickly, round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | jump up | past | Mammy not said here | with a cry of horror | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry | horror | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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