English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 38
But he didn't watch it all the time, and all of a sudden he heard a noise, and he looked up and the oven door popped open, and out of the oven jumped Johnny-cake, and went rolling along end over end, towards the open door of the house.
Who acts: man, all, oven door · What happens: not watch, hear, look up, pop, jump, go · To what, where: oven, noise, Johnny cake, end
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 (man, all, oven door), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 watch | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watch | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watch | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 watch | advmod |
| 5 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 watch | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watch | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 heard | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 heard | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sudden | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sudden | det |
| 15 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 all | nmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 watch | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 noise | det |
| 19 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heard | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 looked | nsubj |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | parataxis |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 looked | compound:prt |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 popped | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 door | det |
| 27 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 door | compound |
| 28 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 popped | nsubj |
| 29 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 looked | conj |
| 30 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 popped | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 jumped | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 jumped | cc |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 oven | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 oven | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 oven | det |
| 36 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 jumped | obl |
| 37 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | conj |
| 38 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 cake | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 Johnny | punct |
| 40 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 jumped | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 went | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 went | cc |
| 43 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 jumped | conj |
| 44 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 went | xcomp |
| 45 | along | along | ADP | _ | 46 end | case |
| 46 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rolling | obl |
| 47 | over | over | ADP | _ | 48 end | case |
| 48 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rolling | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 door | punct |
| 50 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 53 door | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 door | det |
| 52 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 door | amod |
| 53 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 went | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 house | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 house | det |
| 56 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 door | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not watch | past · do-support | man | oven | time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past | all | a noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | pop | past | the oven door | open property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | jump | past | all not said here | Johnny cake | the oven | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cake=Theme out oven=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | go | past | all not said here | towards the open door of the house | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | roll | gerund | all not said here | over end; along end | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme along end=Source over end=Trajectory |
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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