The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 61

When the three witches beheld the chariot, with the frog seated pompously among the cushions, they broke into such fits of laughter that the eyelids of the blind one burst open, and she recovered her sight; the hunchback rolled about on the ground in merriment till her back became straight, and in a roar of laughter the thorn fell out of the throat of the third witch.

Who acts: frog, witches, third, hunchback, back, thorn · What happens: behold, seat, break, recover, roll about, become · To what, where: three witches, such fits, sight, ground, roar

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, witches, third, hunchback), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 beheld	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witches	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 witches	nummod
4	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 beheld	nsubj:pass
5	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 broke	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chariot	det
7	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beheld	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seated	punct
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 seated	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 frog	det
11	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seated	nsubj
12	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beheld	conj
13	pompously	pompously	ADV	_	12 seated	advmod
14	among	among	ADP	_	16 cushions	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cushions	det
16	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seated	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beheld	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 broke	nsubj
19	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 fits	case
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fits	amod
22	fits	fit	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 broke	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 laughter	case
24	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fits	nmod
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 open	nsubj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eyelids	det
27	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 open	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 burst	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 burst	det
30	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 burst	amod
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 burst	compound
32	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eyelids	nmod
33	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 laughter	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 recovered	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 recovered	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 recovered	nsubj
37	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 broke	conj
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 sight	nmod:poss
39	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 recovered	obj
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 rolled	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hunchback	det
42	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rolled	nsubj
43	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 broke	parataxis
44	about	about	ADV	_	43 rolled	advmod
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 ground	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 ground	det
47	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rolled	obl
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 merriment	case
49	merriment	merriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ground	nmod
50	till	till	SCONJ	_	53 became	mark
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 back	nmod:poss
52	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 became	nsubj
53	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 rolled	advcl
54	straight	straight	ADV	_	53 became	advmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 fell	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 fell	cc
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 roar	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 roar	det
59	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 fell	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 laughter	case
61	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 roar	nmod
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 thorn	det
63	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 fell	nsubj
64	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 broke	conj
65	out	out	ADP	_	68 throat	case
66	of	of	ADP	_	68 throat	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 throat	det
68	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 fell	obl
69	of	of	ADP	_	72 witch	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 witch	det
71	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	72 witch	amod
72	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 throat	nmod
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	behold	participle · passive		the three witches			tree rules
2	seat	past	the frog			among the cushions; pompously property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
3	break	past	witches = witch			into such fits of laughter result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into fit=Result
4	recover	past	third	third's sight			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
5	roll about	past	the hunchback		the ground in merriment	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory
6	become	past	third's back			straight property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	fall	past	the thorn		a roar of laughter	out the throat of the third witch	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in roar=Location
8	sight		third				nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
9	roar		laughter				nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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