The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 101
And so they did, till they got to about the middle of the lake, when the frog boy stopped.
Who acts: sisters, frog boy · What happens: do, get, stop
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, frog boy), 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 | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 middle | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 middle | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 middle | det |
| 12 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 middle | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stopped | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 stopped | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 19 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boy | compound |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stopped | nsubj |
| 21 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | sisters = sister | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | sisters = sister | to the middle of the lake result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to middle=Result | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | the frog boy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/26/101/