The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 52

‘Little green toad with leg like crook, Open wide the door, and look Who it was the latch that shook.’

Who acts: latch · What happens: look, be, shake · To what, where: latch

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latch), 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 toad	punct
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toad	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toad	amod
4	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 leg	case
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 toad	nmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 crook	case
8	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leg	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Open	punct
10	Open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toad	parataxis
11	wide	wide	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Open	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 look	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 look	cc
16	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 Open	parataxis
17	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 latch	nsubj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 latch	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 latch	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 latch	det
21	latch	latch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	parataxis
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 shook	nsubj
23	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 latch	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 toad	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 toad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look	infinitive			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past		the latch	tree rules
3	shake	past	the latch		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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