English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 68
“You can, can you?” yelped the fox, and he snapped up the Johnny-cake in his sharp teeth in the twinkling of an eye.
Who acts: fox · What happens: yelp, snap up · To what, where: fox, Johnny cake
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 (fox), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 yelped | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 yelped | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 can | conj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 can | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 9 | yelped | yelp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yelped | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 snapped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 snapped | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 snapped | nsubj |
| 15 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 yelped | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 snapped | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cake | det |
| 18 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cake | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Johnny | punct |
| 20 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snapped | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 teeth | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 teeth | amod |
| 24 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 snapped | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 twinkling | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 twinkling | det |
| 27 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snapped | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 eye | case |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 eye | det |
| 30 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 twinkling | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 yelped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yelp | past | the fox | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | snap up | past | fox | the Johnny cake | in the twinkling of a eye; in fox's sharp teeth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent cake=Patient in tooth=Topic |
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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