The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 9
‘Oh, that is easily managed,’ returned the Kioto frog.
What happens: manage, return · To what, where: that, Kioto frog
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: 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 | _ | 7 managed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 managed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 managed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 managed | aux:pass |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 7 managed | advmod |
| 7 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 returned | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 managed | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 managed | punct |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 frog | det |
| 12 | Kioto | Kioto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 frog | compound |
| 13 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | present · passive | that | easily property | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the Kioto frog | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=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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