The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 87

‘Croak, croak, croak!’ was all he could say when he saw the pretty little girl in the walnut-shell.

Who acts: son · What happens: say, see · To what, where: pretty little girl, walnut shell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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	_	2 Croak	punct
2	Croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 all	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 croak	punct
4	croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Croak	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 croak	punct
6	croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Croak	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Croak	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Croak	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 all	cop
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 all	acl:relcl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 say	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 girl	det
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 girl	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 girl	amod
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 shell	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shell	det
23	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shell	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 walnut	punct
25	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 girl	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	son						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past	son	the pretty little girl		the walnut shell			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=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 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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