The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 27

'That is the very thing,' shouted the frog, jumping high into the air; and so it was settled.

Who acts: That, thing · What happens: be, shout, jump, settle · To what, where: thing, frog, air

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, thing), 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	_	6 thing	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 thing	advmod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shouted	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 shouted	punct
9	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 frog	det
11	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shouted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 jumping	punct
13	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 shouted	advcl
14	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 jumping	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 air	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 air	det
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jumping	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 settled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 settled	cc
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 settled	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 settled	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 settled	aux:pass
23	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thing	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the thing		tree rules
2	shout speech: express	past	the thing not said here	the frog		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Topic
3	jump	gerund	the thing not said here		into the air result; high property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result
4	settle	past · passive		air		vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location

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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