The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 50

Flop! and once more the faithful frog was beside him.

Who acts: faithful frog · What happens: be

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 (faithful 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	Flop	flop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Flop	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 him	cc
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 him	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 frog	det
7	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 frog	amod
8	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 him	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 him	cop
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Flop	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Flop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the faithful frog					beside frog	tree rules

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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