The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 64

Being an experienced traveller, he drew from his pocket a little cup (without which no one should ever take a journey), and was just about to dip it in the water, when a lovely little green frog, much prettier than frogs generally are, jumped into the cup.

Who acts: bird, one, lovely little green frog · What happens: be, draw, take, jump · To what, where: experienced traveller, journey, water, cup

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, one, lovely little green frog), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 traveller	cop
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 traveller	det
3	experienced	experienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 traveller	amod
4	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drew	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 traveller	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drew	nsubj
7	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pocket	nmod:poss
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drew	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cup	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cup	amod
13	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pocket	conj
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 take	obl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 take	advmod
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cup	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 journey	det
23	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 dip	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 dip	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 dip	cop
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 about	advmod
29	about	about	ADV	_	31 dip	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 dip	mark
31	dip	dip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 drew	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 dip	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dip	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 prettier	punct
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 prettier	advmod
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 frog	det
39	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 frog	amod
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 frog	amod
41	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 frog	amod
42	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 prettier	nsubj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 prettier	punct
44	much	much	ADV	_	45 prettier	advmod
45	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 dip	conj
46	than	than	ADP	_	47 frogs	case
47	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 prettier	obl
48	generally	generally	ADV	_	45 prettier	advmod
49	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	7 drew	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 jumped	punct
51	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 drew	conj
52	into	into	ADP	_	54 cup	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 cup	det
54	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 jumped	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund	bird not said here	a experienced traveller				tree rules
2	draw	past	bird				from bird's pocket and a little cup	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from pocket=Co-Patient
3	take	should	no one	a journey		ever	without a little cup	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme
4	is	past	bird not said here		the water		about, dip property	tree rules
5	be		a lovely little green frog				than frogs; generally property	tree rules
6	be	present	bird not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	jump	past	bird not said here		the cup			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cup=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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