The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 31

‘Certainly, if you wish,’ and the frog jumped on the back of one of the horses, and changed into a little dwarf, all dressed in green.

Who acts: you, frog, little dwarf · What happens: wish, jump, change, dress · To what, where: back, all, green

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, frog, little dwarf), 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	_	6 wish	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 wish	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 wish	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
6	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 jumped	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 frog	det
11	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jumped	nsubj
12	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wish	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 back	det
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jumped	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 back	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 horses	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horses	det
20	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 changed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 changed	cc
23	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 jumped	conj
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 dwarf	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dwarf	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dwarf	amod
27	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 changed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dressed	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 dressed	nsubj:pass
30	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 dwarf	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 green	case
32	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dressed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	present	you			certainly property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	jump	past	the frog		the back of one of the horses		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
3	change	participle	the frog not said here			into a little dwarf result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dwarf=Result
4	dress	participle · passive	a little dwarf not said here	all	green		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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