The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 57
The frog was holding the carriage door open for him to step in.
Who acts: frog · What happens: hold, step in · To what, where: carriage door
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 frog | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holding | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 holding | aux |
| 4 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | compound |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holding | obj |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 holding | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 step | mark |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 step | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 step | mark |
| 12 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 open | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 step | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 holding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · progressive | the frog | the carriage door | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||
| 2 | step in | to-infinitive | frog | vn run-51.3.2 «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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