English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 175
He hadn't got far when “Hrumph,” Foxy-woxy snapped off Turkey-lurkey's head and threw his body over his left shoulder.
Who acts: lurkey, Hrumph Foxy woxy · What happens: not get, snap off, throw · To what, where: head, body, left shoulder
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lurkey, Hrumph Foxy woxy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 got | advmod |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 snapped | advmod |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hrumph | punct |
| 8 | Hrumph | Hrumph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 woxy | compound |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hrumph | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hrumph | punct |
| 11 | Foxy | Foxy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 woxy | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Foxy | punct |
| 13 | woxy | woxy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snapped | nsubj |
| 14 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | advcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 snapped | compound:prt |
| 16 | Turkey | Turkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lurkey | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Turkey | punct |
| 18 | lurkey | lurkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 lurkey | case |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snapped | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 snapped | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 body | nmod:poss |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obj |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 shoulder | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 27 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 shoulder | amod |
| 28 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | past · perfect | lurkey | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | snap off | past | Hrumph Foxy woxy | Turkey lurkey's head | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | Hrumph Foxy woxy not said here | lurkey's body | lurkey's left shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent body=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
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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