The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 58
The second: ‘Every time she speaks a toad shall jump out of her mouth.’
Who acts: first, second · What happens: speak, jump out · To what, where: toad, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, second), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 jump | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 jump | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 jump | punct |
| 5 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jump | nsubj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 speaks | nsubj |
| 8 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 toad | det |
| 10 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 speaks | obj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 jump | aux |
| 12 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 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 jump | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 jump | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 jump | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | first | a toad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jump out | shall | the second | first's mouth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Trajectory |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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