The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 12

There they both stood, stretching themselves as high as they could, and holding each other tightly, so that they might not fall down.

Who acts: frogs · What happens: stand, stretch, hold, not fall down · To what, where: frogs, each

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 (frogs), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 stood	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
3	both	both	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stretching	punct
6	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stood	advcl
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 stretching	obj
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 high	advmod
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stretching	xcomp
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 could	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 high	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 holding	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 holding	cc
15	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stretching	conj
16	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	15 holding	obj
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 each	fixed
18	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	15 holding	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fall	punct
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	25 fall	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fall	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 fall	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 fall	advmod
25	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stood	parataxis
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 fall	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	frogs = frog		there	both property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stretch	gerund	frogs = frog not said here	frogs = frog		high property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	hold	gerund	frogs = frog not said here	each		tightly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
4	not fall down	might	frogs = frog				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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