English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 10
The boy rushed to it, and unclosed the volume.
Who acts: boy · What happens: rush, unclos · To what, where: copper, volume
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unclosed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 unclosed | cc |
| 8 | unclosed | unclos | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rushed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 volume | det |
| 10 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unclosed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the boy | copper | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | unclos | participle | the boy not said here | the volume | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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