The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 105
Then he jumped up suddenly from the table and ran to the door, where he found the beautiful Hyacinthia waiting for him.
Who acts: Milan, beautiful Hyacinthia · What happens: jump up, run, find, wait · To what, where: table, beautiful Hyacinthia
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Milan, beautiful Hyacinthia), 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 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 jumped | compound:prt |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 jumped | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 found | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hyacinthia | det |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Hyacinthia | amod |
| 20 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 found | obj |
| 21 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 found | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 waiting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | Milan | the table | then | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from table=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | run | past | Milan not said here | to the door result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Milan | the beautiful Hyacinthia | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hyacinthia=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | the beautiful Hyacinthia not said here | for Milan | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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