The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 28

‘Look close, and you will see me among the reeds in the form of a little green frog.

Who acts: you · What happens: look, see, form · To what, where: me, little green frog

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Look	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Look	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	among	among	ADP	_	12 reeds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reeds	det
12	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 form	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 form	det
15	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reeds	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 frog	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 frog	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 frog	amod
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 frog	amod
20	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 form	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		close property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	future	you	me	among the reeds in the form of a little green frog	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	form			a little green frog		nom form «communication 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 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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