English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 9
The sword cut off the hand, which jumped up into the air, and fell of all places in the world into Lady Mary's lap.
Who acts: sword · What happens: cut off, jump up, fall · To what, where: hand, air, world
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), 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 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sword | acl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hand | det |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 jumped | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 jumped | nsubj |
| 9 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 jumped | compound:prt |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jumped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 jumped | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 places | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 places | det |
| 19 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fell | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 lap | case |
| 24 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Mary | compound |
| 25 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 lap | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Mary | case |
| 27 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | participle | the sword not said here | the hand | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | jump up | past | the sword | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the sword not said here | the world | of all places; into Lady Mary's lap | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of place=Initial_Location into lap=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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