The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 12

Then the frog answered: ‘Do not weep on that account; give me the thread, and I will spin it for you.’

Who acts: frog, I · What happens: answer, not weep, give, spin · To what, where: account, thread, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 answered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frog	det
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 weep	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 weep	punct
7	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 weep	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 weep	advmod
9	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 account	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 account	det
12	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weep	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
14	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 weep	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thread	det
17	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spin	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spin	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 spin	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 spin	aux
22	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 give	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spin	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 spin	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 weep	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 weep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the frog				then		tree rules
2	not weep	infinitive · do-support				that account			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on account=Destination
3	give	infinitive		the thread	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thread=Theme
4	spin	future	I	thread				for you	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Result for you=Beneficiary

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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