The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 38

It sat up and begged with its paws, and went through the prettiest tricks, and was almost human in the way it understood and did what it was told.

Who acts: dog · What happens: sit up, beg, go, be, understand, do · To what, where: prettiest tricks, way, dog · 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 (dog), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 begged	cc
5	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sat	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 paws	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 paws	nmod:poss
8	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 begged	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
12	through	through	ADP	_	15 tricks	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tricks	det
14	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 tricks	amod
15	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 human	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 human	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 human	cop
19	almost	almost	ADV	_	20 human	advmod
20	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 way	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 human	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 understood	nsubj
25	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 way	acl:relcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 did	cc
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 understood	conj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 told	obj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 told	aux:pass
31	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 did	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	dog				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	participle	dog not said here			with dog's paws	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	dog not said here		the prettiest tricks		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through trick=Initial_Location
4	is	past			the way	almost, human property	tree rules
5	understand	past	dog	the way not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
6	do	past	dog not said here				tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	past · passive		dog			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=Topic

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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