The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 83
'I am not a "mere frog," and I will give you proof of it,' retorted the angry little creature.
Who acts: mere frog, I · What happens: not be, give, retort, proof · To what, where: mere frog, proof, you, angry little creature · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mere frog, I), 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 | _ | 8 frog | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 frog | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 frog | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 frog | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 frog | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 frog | punct |
| 7 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 frog | amod |
| 8 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 retorted | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 frog | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 frog | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 give | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 frog | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 proof | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 frog | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 frog | punct |
| 21 | retorted | retort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 creature | det |
| 23 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 creature | amod |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 creature | amod |
| 25 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 retorted | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 retorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | a mere frog = frog | a mere frog | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | proof of proof | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient proof=Theme | |||
| 3 | retort speech: other | past | a mere frog | the angry little creature | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent creature=Topic | ||||
| 4 | proof | proof | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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