The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 10

‘We have only got to stand up on our hind legs, and hold on to each other, and then we can each look at the town he is travelling to.’

Who acts: We, Mikado · What happens: get, stand up, hold on, look, travel · To what, where: hind legs, town

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Two Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Mikado), 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	_	5 got	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 got	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stand	mark
7	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 got	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 stand	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 legs	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
11	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 legs	amod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stand	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hold	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hold	cc
15	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stand	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 hold	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 each	case
18	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	15 hold	obl
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 each	fixed
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 look	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 look	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 look	advmod
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 look	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 look	aux
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 look	advmod
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 got	parataxis
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 town	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 town	det
29	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 look	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 travelling	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 travelling	aux
32	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 town	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	32 travelling	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	We					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stand up	to-infinitive	We not said here		our hind legs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
3	hold on	infinitive	We not said here				to each	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	can	we			then	at the town	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at town=Theme
5	travel	present · progressive	Mikado	the town not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Trajectory

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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