The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 8

‘What a pity we are not bigger,’ said the Osaka frog; ‘for then we could see both towns from here, and tell if it is worth our while going on.’

Who acts: we, pity, it, our · What happens: not be, say, see, tell, be, go on · To what, where: pity, Osaka frog, towns · Speech: someone speaks here

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, pity, it, our), 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 What	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 said	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pity	det
4	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 bigger	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bigger	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bigger	advmod
8	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 pity	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bigger	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 bigger	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 frog	det
13	Osaka	Osaka	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 frog	compound
14	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 then	case
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 see	obl
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 see	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 towns	det
23	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 see	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 here	case
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 see	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 see	parataxis
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 worth	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 worth	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 worth	cop
32	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tell	ccomp
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 going	nsubj
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 going	mark
35	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 worth	ccomp
36	on	on	ADP	_	35 going	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	we	a pity not said here	big property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a pity	the Osaka frog		tree rules
3	see	could	we	both towns		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a condition, not said to happen	present	it		worth property	tree rules
6	go on	gerund	our			vn function-105.2.1 «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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