English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 17
and then it gave a hop, skip and jump, and went flop into the Well of the World's End.
Who acts: voice · What happens: give, skip, jump, go, flop · To what, where: hop, Well
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hop | det |
| 6 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 skip | punct |
| 8 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 jump | cc |
| 10 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 skip | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 14 | flop | flop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | xcomp |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 Well | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Well | det |
| 17 | Well | Well | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 flop | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 End | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 World | det |
| 20 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 End | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 World | case |
| 22 | End | End | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Well | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | voice | a hop | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hop=Theme | |||
| 2 | skip | infinitive | voice not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | jump | infinitive | voice not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | voice not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | flop | infinitive | voice not said here | the Well of the World's End | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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