The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 56
At this the frog disappeared; and the next minute the youth beheld a lovely little chariot, drawn by two tiny ponies, standing on the road.
Who acts: frog, youth · What happens: disappear, behold, draw, stand · To what, where: lovely little chariot, road
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, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 frog | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 frog | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 frog | det |
| 4 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disappeared | nsubj |
| 5 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 beheld | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beheld | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 minute | det |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minute | amod |
| 10 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beheld | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beheld | nsubj |
| 13 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappeared | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 chariot | det |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chariot | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chariot | amod |
| 17 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beheld | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drawn | punct |
| 19 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 chariot | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 ponies | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 ponies | nummod |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ponies | amod |
| 23 | ponies | pony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drawn | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 standing | punct |
| 25 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 beheld | advcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 road | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 standing | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | this frog | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | behold | past | the youth | a lovely little chariot | minute | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chariot=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | draw | participle | a lovely little chariot not said here | by two tiny ponies | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | the youth not said here | the road | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on road=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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