The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 37

“Well, mother?” answered the pert hussy, throwing out of her mouth two vipers and two toads.

Who acts: mother · What happens: answer, throw · To what, where: pert hussy, two vipers, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 mother	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 mother	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hussy	det
9	pert	pert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hussy	amod
10	hussy	hussy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 throwing	punct
12	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 answered	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 mouth	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mouth	nmod:poss
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 throwing	obl
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 vipers	nummod
18	vipers	viper	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 throwing	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 toads	cc
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 toads	nummod
21	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 vipers	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	mother	the pert hussy					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hussy=Eventuality
2	throw	gerund	mother not said here	two vipers and two toads		mother's mouth			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent viper=Theme out mouth=Destination

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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