The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 91
Instead the snails and grasshoppers and water-rats stood round the frog in their natural shapes.
Who acts: snails · What happens: stand · To what, where: natural shapes
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 (snails), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snails | det |
| 3 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grasshoppers | cc |
| 5 | grasshoppers | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 snails | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rats | cc |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rats | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | punct |
| 9 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 snails | conj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 frog | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 frog | det |
| 13 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shapes | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shapes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shapes | amod |
| 17 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the snails and grasshoppers and water rats | boats's natural shapes | round the frog; instead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shape=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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