English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 30
And it hopped, and it skipped, and it jumped, till it reached the girl, and then it said:
Who acts: door · What happens: hop, skip, jump, reach, say · To what, where: girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hopped | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hopped | nsubj |
| 3 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 skipped | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 skipped | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 skipped | nsubj |
| 7 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hopped | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 jumped | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 jumped | nsubj |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 skipped | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 reached | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 jumped | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 said | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hopped | conj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | door | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | skip | past | door | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | jump | past | door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | door | the girl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | door | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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