The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 69
And so it was, for when it struck eleven, Jack my Hedgehog went to his room, took off his skin and left it at the foot of the bed.
Who acts: fire, Jack · What happens: be, go, take off, leave · To what, where: room, skin, fire, foot
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 (fire, Jack), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 struck | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 struck | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 struck | mark |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 struck | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 struck | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Hedgehog | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Jack | appos |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 room | nmod:poss |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | parataxis |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 took | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 skin | nmod:poss |
| 23 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 left | cc |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 left | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 foot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 foot | det |
| 29 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 bed | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bed | det |
| 32 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 foot | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | fire | strike property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Jack | Jack's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take off | past | Jack's skin | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | fire | the foot of the bed | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Location |
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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