English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 105
Well, when the girl heard this, she felt as if she could have jumped out of her skin for joy, but she didn't say a word.
Who acts: girl · What happens: hear, feel, have, jump out, not say · To what, where: this, skin, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 heard | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | aux |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 felt | ccomp |
| 16 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 skin | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 skin | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 skin | nmod:poss |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jumped | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 skin | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 say | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 say | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 say | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 say | aux |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 say | advmod |
| 28 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 heard | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 word | det |
| 30 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 say | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the girl | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | girl | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | could | girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | jump out | past | girl not said here | girl's skin for joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme skin=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | girl | a word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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