The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 65
Far from admiring its beauty, Saphir shook it impatiently off; but it was no good, for quick as lightning the frog jumped back again.
Who acts: Saphir, FROG · What happens: admire, shake, be, jump back · To what, where: beauty, FROG
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 (Saphir, 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 shook | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 3 admiring | mark |
| 3 | admiring | admire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Far | advcl |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 admiring | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Far | punct |
| 7 | Saphir | Saphir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shook | nsubj |
| 8 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 shook | obj |
| 10 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 11 off | advmod |
| 11 | off | off | ADV | _ | 8 shook | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 good | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 good | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 good | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 good | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 good | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shook | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 quick | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 quick | case |
| 20 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 good | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 lightning | case |
| 22 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jumped | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 frog | det |
| 24 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jumped | nsubj |
| 25 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 quick | parataxis |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 jumped | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 jumped | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | gerund | Saphir not said here | FROG's beauty | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | Saphir | FROG | far, off property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | FROG | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | FROG not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | jump back | past | the frog | again | as lightning | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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