The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 49
With bowed head, and feeling very sad, he sat down on the edge of the pond.
Who acts: frog · What happens: bow, feel, sit down · To what, where: edge
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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 head | amod |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 6 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sat | advcl |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 sad | advmod |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feeling | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feeling | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sat | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 edge | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 edge | det |
| 15 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pond | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pond | det |
| 18 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 edge | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | participle | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | frog not said here | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | frog | the edge of the pond | with bowed head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location |
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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