The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 202
He bounded high into the air with delight and uttered cries of pleasure; then he drew near and undid the bolts.
Who acts: man, pleasure · What happens: bound, utter, draw, undo, cry · To what, where: air, cries, bolts
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 (man, pleasure), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bounded | nsubj |
| 2 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 bounded | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bounded | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 delight | case |
| 8 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 air | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 uttered | cc |
| 10 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bounded | conj |
| 11 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 uttered | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pleasure | case |
| 13 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cries | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 drew | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drew | nsubj |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bounded | parataxis |
| 18 | near | near | ADV | _ | 17 drew | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 undid | cc |
| 20 | undid | undo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drew | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bolts | det |
| 22 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 undid | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | past | man | the air with delight | high property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | man not said here | cries of pleasure | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | man | then | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | undo | past | man not said here | the bolts | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Patient | ||||
| 5 | cry | pleasure | 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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