Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 10

Wallace's flying frog of Borneo and Malaysia spreads its huge webbed feet and skin flaps like parachutes to glide down between trees, about 15 metres reported; Alfred Russel Wallace described it in the 1850s.

Who acts: flying frog · What happens: fly, spread, web, glide down, report, describe · To what, where: huge webbed feet, 15 metres, trees, tape, 1850s

This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flying frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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