The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 67
Standing on her hind legs, and bowing low before her, she said gently:
Who acts: frog · What happens: stand, bow, say · To what, where: hind legs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog), 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 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 legs | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 legs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legs | amod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Standing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bowing | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bowing | cc |
| 8 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Standing | conj |
| 9 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 bowing | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bowing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Standing | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | frog not said here | frog's hind legs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | ||||
| 2 | bow | gerund | frog not said here | before frog | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | frog | gently property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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.
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