The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 145
Then he shook himself for joy, and plunged into the sea.
Who acts: whale · What happens: shake, plunge · To what, where: whale, sea
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale), 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 shook | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 shook | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 plunged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 plunged | cc |
| 9 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shook | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plunged | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | whale | whale | then | for joy | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||
| 2 | plunge | participle | whale not said here | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=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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