English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 22
In came a huge huge head, and sat down on the small small neck.
Who acts: huge huge head · What happens: come, sit down · To what, where: small small neck
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge huge head), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 came | case |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 4 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 head | amod |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 head | amod |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sat | cc |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neck | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 neck | amod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 neck | amod |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a huge huge head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | a huge huge head not said here | the small small neck | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on neck=Location |
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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