The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 44
Instantly he sprang after her, touched the cage with the flower, and the old woman as well.
Who acts: Joringel · What happens: spring, touch · To what, where: old woman, cage
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprang | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 touched | punct |
| 7 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprang | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cage | det |
| 9 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touched | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 flower | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flower | det |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 woman | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 woman | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 17 woman | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | Joringel | the old woman | after enchantress | instantly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | touch | past | Joringel not said here | the cage | with the flower | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cage=Theme with flower=Instrument |
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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