The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 73
So saying, he caught up a bundle of straps, and hit out at Jem so hard that he ran off crying.
Who acts: son · What happens: say, catch up, hit out, run off, cry · To what, where: bundle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 caught | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 caught | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bundle | det |
| 8 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 straps | case |
| 10 | straps | strap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bundle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hit | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hit | cc |
| 13 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 hit | compound:prt |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Jem | case |
| 16 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hit | obl |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 hard | advmod |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 hit | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 ran | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hit | advcl |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 ran | compound:prt |
| 23 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 ran | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | son not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | catch up | past | son | a bundle of straps | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hit out | past | son not said here | at Jem; hard property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at jem=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run off | past | son | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | son not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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