The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 73

The girl went home in the evening, and when her mother saw her she was as vexed as she could be, and with good reason, too; but it was still worse when she saw the toads fall out of her mouth and heard her voice.

Who acts: girl, mother, reason, toads · What happens: go, see, vex, be, fall, hear · To what, where: girl, mother, mouth, voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, mother, reason, toads), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 evening	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 saw	advmod
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 vexed	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 vexed	aux:pass
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 vexed	advmod
18	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 saw	ccomp
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 be	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 be	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 be	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 vexed	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reason	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 reason	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 reason	case
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 reason	amod
27	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 too	punct
29	too	too	ADV	_	27 reason	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 saw	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 worse	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 worse	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 worse	cop
34	still	still	ADV	_	35 worse	advmod
35	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 saw	advmod
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 saw	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 saw	nsubj
38	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 toads	det
40	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 fall	nsubj
41	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 saw	ccomp
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 mouth	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 mouth	case
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 mouth	nmod:poss
45	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fall	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 heard	cc
47	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 saw	conj
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 voice	nmod:poss
49	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 heard	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the girl			evening	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	girl's mother	girl				tree rules
3	vex	past · passive		mother				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	is	past	reason			still	bad property	tree rules
5	see	past	mother					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	fall	present	the toads		toad's mouth			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out mouth=Location
7	hear	past	mother not said here	toad's voice				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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