The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 2
‘Prince, I will help you,’ said the toad again, and crawled back into her swamp as fast as her short little legs would carry her.
Who acts: Prince, short little legs · What happens: help, say, crawl back, carry · To what, where: you, toad, swamp · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince, short little legs), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 help | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 help | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 toad | det |
| 12 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 said | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crawled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crawled | cc |
| 16 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 crawled | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 swamp | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 swamp | nmod:poss |
| 20 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crawled | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 fast | advmod |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 crawled | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 carry | mark |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 legs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 legs | amod |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 legs | amod |
| 27 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 carry | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 carry | aux |
| 29 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fast | advcl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carry | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | future | Prince | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the toad | again | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crawl back | past | toad's swamp | fast property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into swamp=Destination | ||||
| 4 | carry | would | toad's short little legs | toad | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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