The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 104

But just as she was going to touch the foremost fish, her eyes fell on a green frog on his knees beside her, his little paws crossed over his little heart.

Who acts: Bellah, eyes · What happens: go, touch, fall, cross · To what, where: foremost fish, little paws, little heart

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellah, eyes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 going	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 touch	mark
8	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
10	foremost	foremost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fish	amod
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touch	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fish	acl:relcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 frog	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 frog	det
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 frog	amod
19	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fell	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 knees	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 knees	nmod:poss
22	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 frog	nmod
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 paws	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 paws	nmod:poss
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 paws	amod
28	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fish	conj
29	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 paws	acl
30	over	over	ADP	_	33 heart	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heart	nmod:poss
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 heart	amod
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crossed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Bellah				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	touch	to-infinitive	Bellah not said here	the foremost fish and frog's little paws			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fish=Co-Theme
3	fall	past	Bellah's eyes	the foremost fish and frog's little paws not said here		on a green frog on frog's knees; beside Bellah	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient fish=Result
4	cross	participle		frog's little paws not said here	frog's little heart		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over heart=Initial_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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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