The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 59
But matters turned out very differently from what he had expected, for when they had got a certain distance from the town Jack tore all the Princess’s smart clothes off her, and pricked her all over with his bristles, saying: ‘That’s what you get for treachery.
Who acts: matters, certain distance, you · What happens: turn out, expect, get, tore, prick, say · To what, where: King, smart clothes, distance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matters, certain distance, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 turned | compound:prt |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 differently | advmod |
| 6 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 expected | aux |
| 11 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 got | mark |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 got | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | aux |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 distance | det |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 distance | amod |
| 20 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tore | nsubj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 distance | nmod |
| 24 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 town | appos |
| 25 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | parataxis |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 clothes | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Princess | det |
| 28 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Princess | case |
| 30 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 clothes | amod |
| 31 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 tore | obj |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 clothes | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pricked | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 pricked | cc |
| 36 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pricked | obj |
| 38 | all | all | ADV | _ | 39 over | advmod |
| 39 | over | over | ADV | _ | 36 pricked | advmod |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 bristles | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 bristles | nmod:poss |
| 42 | bristles | bristle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 pricked | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 saying | punct |
| 44 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 pricked | advcl |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 48 ’s | punct |
| 46 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 ’s | punct |
| 47 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 ’s | nsubj |
| 48 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 saying | ccomp |
| 49 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 51 get | obj |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 get | nsubj |
| 51 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 ’s | ccomp |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 treachery | case |
| 53 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 get | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past | matters | differently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | expect | past · perfect · passive | King | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | matters = matter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | tore | past | a certain distance from the town | the Princess's smart clothes | off Princess | tree rules | |||
| 5 | prick | past | matters not said here | distance | with King's bristles; over property | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with bristle=Instrument | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | matters not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | get | present | you | for treachery | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme for treachery=Source |
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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