The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 82
When he spoke to his wife and she answered him, instead of the usual piece of gold a toad jumped out of her mouth.
Who acts: King, wife, toad · What happens: speak, answer, jump out · To what, where: King, 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 (King, wife, 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 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 jumped | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 answered | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 piece | punct |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 16 piece | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 piece | det |
| 15 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 piece | amod |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piece | nmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 toad | det |
| 20 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jumped | nsubj |
| 21 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 mouth | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mouth | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jumped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | King | to King's wife; instead the usual piece of gold | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to wife=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | jump out | past | a toad | wife'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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