The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 19
In a few minutes the toad stood in front of him and asked, ‘What’s the matter with you now, my dear Prince?’
Who acts: toad · What happens: stand, ask, be · To what, where: front, dear Prince, matter
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toad), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 toad | det |
| 6 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 front | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 matter | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 matter | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 matter | nsubj |
| 17 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 matter | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 matter | nmod |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 asked | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Prince | punct |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Prince | amod |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the toad | front of Prince | minute | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the toad not said here | my dear Prince | now | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the matter | with you | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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