The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 33
And, seeing that the youth hesitated, she took the little creature out of his arms, and disappeared with it into the pond.
Who acts: woman · What happens: see, hesitate, take, disappear · To what, where: youth, little creature, arms, pond
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 (woman), 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 | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 took | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 youth | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeing | obl |
| 7 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 youth | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seeing | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 creature | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 creature | amod |
| 13 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 arms | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 arms | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arms | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 creature | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 disappeared | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 disappeared | cc |
| 20 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 disappeared | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pond | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pond | det |
| 25 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 disappeared | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | woman not said here | the youth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hesitate | participle | the youth not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | woman | the little creature | youth's arms | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent creature=Theme out arm=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | disappear | past | woman not said here | the pond | with creature | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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