English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 17
Now, this time, when Anne lifted the lid off the pot, off falls her own pretty head, and on jumps a sheep's head.
Who acts: Anne, time · What happens: lift, fall, jump · To what, where: lid, pot, own pretty head, head
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anne, time), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 falls | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 falls | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lifted | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 lifted | advmod |
| 7 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | nsubj |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lid | det |
| 10 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 pot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pot | det |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 off | punct |
| 15 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pot | conj |
| 16 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 head | amod |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 head | compound |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 falls | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 jumps | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 jumps | cc |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 jumps | case |
| 24 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 falls | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sheep | det |
| 26 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 sheep | case |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 jumps | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 falls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Anne | the lid | the pot and off | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lid=Theme off pot=Destination | |||
| 2 | fall | present | this time | Anne's own pretty head | now | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient head=Result | |||
| 3 | jump | present | this time not said here | a sheep's head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=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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