The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 83
Then the frog hopped down, and squatting at the bottom, let out a croak.
Who acts: frog · What happens: hop down, squat, let out · To what, where: bottom, croak
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, 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 (frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hopped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 frog | det |
| 3 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hopped | nsubj |
| 4 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 hopped | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 squatting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 squatting | cc |
| 8 | squatting | squat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hopped | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 squatting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 squatting | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 let | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 croak | det |
| 16 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop down | past | the frog | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | squat | gerund | the frog not said here | the bottom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location | ||||
| 3 | let out | infinitive | the frog not said here | a croak | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croak=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 grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (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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