The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 99

‘Croak, croak, croak!’ was all that the son could say.

Who acts: son · What happens: be

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	root	root
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	15 say	cop
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 say	det:predet
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 say	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 son	det
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 say	aux
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Croak	parataxis
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Croak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could · past	the son					say property	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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