The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 108

‘It is I,’ croaked the little frog; and as the knife touched him he was a man again, and, springing up, he clasped her in his arms.

Who acts: hat, I, knife, frog · What happens: be, croak, touch, spring up, clasp · To what, where: I, little frog, frog, man, Bellah, arms

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 (hat, I, knife, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 I	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 I	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 croaked	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 I	punct
7	croaked	croak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 frog	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 frog	amod
10	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 croaked	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 touched	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 touched	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 touched	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 knife	det
15	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 touched	nsubj
16	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 croaked	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touched	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 man	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 man	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 touched	ccomp
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 man	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 clasped	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 clasped	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 springing	punct
26	springing	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 clasped	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 springing	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 springing	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 clasped	nsubj
30	clasped	clasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 croaked	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 clasped	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 arms	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 arms	nmod:poss
34	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 clasped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 croaked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	hat	I			tree rules
2	croak	past	I	the little frog			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frog=Theme
3	touch	past	the knife	frog			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
4	is a	past	frog	a man		again	tree rules
5	spring up	gerund	frog not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	clasp	past	frog	Bellah	frog's arms		vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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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