The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 61

When she opened her mouth to tell her mother what had befallen her in the wood, a toad jumped out, so that everyone was quite disgusted with her.

Who acts: first, toad · What happens: open, tell, befall, jump out, disgust · To what, where: mouth, mother, wood, everyone · 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, toad), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 opened	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 jumped	advcl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mouth	nmod:poss
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 opened	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 befallen	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 befallen	aux
12	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 mother	acl:relcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 befallen	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 befallen	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 jumped	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 toad	det
19	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 jumped	nsubj
20	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 jumped	compound:prt
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 disgusted	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 disgusted	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	28 disgusted	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 disgusted	aux:pass
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 disgusted	advmod
28	disgusted	disgust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 jumped	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 disgusted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	first	first's mouth				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	first not said here		first's mother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
3	befall	past · perfect · passive		first's mother		the wood		tree rules
4	jump out	past	a toad					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	disgust	past · passive		everyone			with first	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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