The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 40
The frog answered nothing at the time, but stopped her game and hopped away among the cypress trees.
Who acts: frog · What happens: answer, stop, hop away · To what, where: nothing, game, cypress trees
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 frog | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 answered | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stopped | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stopped | cc |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 game | nmod:poss |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stopped | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hopped | cc |
| 14 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stopped | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 hopped | advmod |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 trees | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trees | det |
| 18 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trees | compound |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hopped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the frog | nothing | time | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | stop | past | frog's game | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hop away | past | the cypress trees | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Trajectory |
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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