English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 30

This young lady happened to be looking out of the window when Jack was passing with the donkey on his shoulders, with the legs sticking up in the air, and the sight was so comical and strange that she burst out into a great fit of laughter, and immediately recovered her speech and hearing.

Who acts: young lady, Jack, legs, sight, lady · What happens: happen, look out, pass, stick up, be, burst out · To what, where: window, shoulders, air, great fit, speech · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young lady, Jack, legs, sight), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 lady	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 looking	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 looking	aux
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 window	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looking	obl
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 passing	mark
13	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 passing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 passing	aux
15	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 looking	advcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 donkey	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 donkey	det
18	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 passing	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 shoulders	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 shoulders	nmod:poss
21	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 passing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sticking	punct
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	26 sticking	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 legs	det
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sticking	nsubj
26	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 looking	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 sticking	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 air	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sticking	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 comical	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 comical	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sight	det
34	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 comical	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 comical	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 comical	advmod
37	comical	comical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happened	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 strange	cc
39	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 comical	conj
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 burst	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 burst	nsubj
42	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 comical	advcl
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 burst	compound:prt
44	into	into	ADP	_	47 fit	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 fit	det
46	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 fit	amod
47	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 burst	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 laughter	case
49	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fit	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 recovered	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 recovered	cc
52	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	53 recovered	advmod
53	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 burst	conj
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 speech	nmod:poss
55	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 recovered	obj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 hearing	cc
57	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 speech	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	this young lady				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look out	to-infinitive · progressive	this young lady not said here	the window			tree rules
3	pass	past · progressive	Jack		donkey's shoulders	with the donkey	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location
4	stick up	gerund	the legs		the air		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in air=Destination
5	is	past	the sight			comical property	tree rules
6	be		the sight not said here				tree rules
7	burst out	past	lady		a great fit of laughter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	recover	past	lady not said here	lady's speech and hearing		immediately property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Theme
9	speak		lady				nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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