The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 5
"Big, was he!" said the old Frog, puffing herself up. "
Who acts: monster · What happens: be, puff up · To what, where: herself · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (monster), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Big | punct |
| 2 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Big | punct |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 he | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Frog | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Frog | amod |
| 11 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 puffing | punct |
| 13 | puffing | puff | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 puffing | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 puffing | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | past | monster | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | puff up | gerund | herself = she | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Source |
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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