The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 10

But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was _much, much_ bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.

Who acts: little Frogs, monster, old Frog, bigger · What happens: declare, be, keep, puff out, burst · To what, where: bigger

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Frogs, monster, old Frog, bigger), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 declared	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Frogs	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Frogs	amod
4	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 declared	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 declared	advmod
6	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 much	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 monster	det
9	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 much	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 much	cop
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 much	punct
12	much	much	ADV	_	6 declared	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bigger	punct
14	much	much	ADV	_	16 bigger	advmod
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	14 much	punct
16	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 declared	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 kept	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Frog	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Frog	amod
20	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 kept	nsubj
21	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bigger	conj
22	puffing	puff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 kept	xcomp
23	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 puffing	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	22 puffing	compound:prt
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 puffing	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 more	cc
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 more	conj
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 once	mark
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 once	punct
30	all	all	ADV	_	32 once	advmod
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 puffing	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 burst	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 burst	nsubj
35	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 declared	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the little Frogs		all property	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the monster		much property	tree rules
3	keep	past	the old Frog			tree rules
4	puff out	gerund	the old Frog not said here	bigger = big		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Source
5	burst	past	bigger = big			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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