The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 86

Very sad, and very much ashamed of himself poor Saphir crept back to the fountain, where the Frog was awaiting him with a good scolding.

Who acts: poor Saphir, Frog · What happens: creep back, await · To what, where: fountain, Saphir

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 (poor 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 sad	advmod
2	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ashamed	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ashamed	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 ashamed	advmod
7	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sad	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 ashamed	obl
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Saphir	amod
11	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 crept	nsubj
12	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ashamed	parataxis
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 crept	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 fountain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fountain	det
16	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 awaiting	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 awaiting	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Frog	det
20	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 awaiting	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 awaiting	aux
22	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 fountain	acl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 awaiting	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 scolding	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 scolding	det
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 scolding	amod
27	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 awaiting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep back	past	poor Saphir			the fountain			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fountain=Destination
2	await	past · progressive	the Frog	Saphir				with a good scolding	tree rules

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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