The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’, sentence 13
Out the little old woman jumped; and whether she broke her neck in the fall, or ran into the wood and was lost there, or found her way out of the wood and was taken up by the constable and sent to the House of Correction for a vagrant as she was, I cannot tell.
Who acts: little old woman, woman, I · What happens: jump, break, run, lose, find, take up · To what, where: neck, fall, wood, way, House · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little old woman, woman, I), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 6 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jumped | nsubj |
| 6 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 broke | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 broke | cc |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 broke | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 broke | nsubj |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fall | det |
| 16 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | parataxis |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lost | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lost | aux:pass |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 ran | conj |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 lost | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 found | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 found | cc |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jumped | parataxis |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 way | nmod:poss |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 wood | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 wood | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wood | det |
| 35 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 taken | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 taken | aux:pass |
| 38 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 found | conj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 taken | compound:prt |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 constable | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 constable | det |
| 42 | constable | constable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 taken | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 sent | cc |
| 44 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 taken | conj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 House | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 House | det |
| 47 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 sent | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Correction | case |
| 49 | Correction | Correction | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 House | nmod |
| 50 | for | for | ADP | _ | 52 vagrant | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 vagrant | det |
| 52 | vagrant | vagrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sent | obl |
| 53 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 55 was | mark |
| 54 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 was | nsubj |
| 55 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 sent | advcl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
| 57 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 60 tell | nsubj |
| 58 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 60 tell | aux |
| 59 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 60 tell | advmod |
| 60 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 jumped | parataxis |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the little old woman | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | past | woman | woman's neck | the fall | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient | |||
| 3 | run | past | into the wood result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | there | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | find | past | woman's way | the wood | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 6 | take up | past · passive | by the constable | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 7 | send | participle | the House of Correction | for a vagrant | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination | ||||
| 8 | be | past | woman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | not tell speech: assert | can | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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 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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