The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 13
And, having said this, she took it out of his hand, and flopped back into the water, and the youth went back, not knowing what would happen next.
Who acts: girl, youth · What happens: say, take, flop back, go back, not know, happen · To what, where: this, thread, hand, water · 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 (girl, youth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 3 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flopped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flopped | cc |
| 16 | flopped | flop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 flopped | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flopped | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 youth | det |
| 24 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knowing | punct |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 knowing | advmod |
| 29 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 went | advcl |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 happen | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 happen | aux |
| 32 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 knowing | ccomp |
| 33 | next | next | ADV | _ | 32 happen | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund · perfect | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | past | girl | thread | frog's hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | flop back | past | girl not said here | the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go back | past | the youth | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not know | gerund | the youth not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | happen | would | next property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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