The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 62

The frog was always careful to maintain her dignity, and nothing would have persuaded her to show her face in public places, or even along the high road, where there was a chance of meeting anyone.

Who acts: frog, chance · What happens: be, maintain, persuade, show, meet · To what, where: dignity, nothing, face, anyone

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, chance), 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	5 careful	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 careful	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 careful	advmod
5	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 maintain	mark
7	maintain	maintain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 careful	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dignity	nmod:poss
9	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 maintain	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 persuaded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 persuaded	cc
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 persuaded	nsubj:pass
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 persuaded	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 persuaded	aux
15	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 careful	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 persuaded	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 show	mark
18	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 persuaded	advcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 face	nmod:poss
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 show	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 places	case
22	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 places	amod
23	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 show	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 road	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 road	cc
26	even	even	ADV	_	30 road	advmod
27	along	along	ADP	_	30 road	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 road	det
29	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 road	amod
30	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 places	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 was	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 was	advmod
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 road	acl:relcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 chance	det
36	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 was	nsubj
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 meeting	mark
38	meeting	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 chance	acl
39	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 meeting	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the frog		always, careful property	tree rules
2	maintain	to-infinitive	the frog not said here	frog's dignity		vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent dignity=Theme
3	persuade	would · perfect · passive		nothing		tree rules
4	show	to-infinitive		frog's face	in public places	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient in place=Topic
5	meet	gerund	a chance not said here	anyone		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-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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