The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 7

‘You must learn to do as you are told,’ was all the Frog would reply.

Who acts: You, Frog · What happens: learn, do, tell, reply · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 learn	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 do	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 all	cop
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 reply	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Frog	det
16	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 reply	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reply	aux
18	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 learn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	must	You		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive	You not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	present · passive		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	reply speech: assert	would	the Frog		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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