English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 95

“Well, well,” said the frog, “I knew that I would have to do something, so you had better let me go down in the water.”

Who acts: frog, you · What happens: say, know, have, do, let, go down · To what, where: something, frog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog, you), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frog	det
9	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 have	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knew	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 have	xcomp
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 do	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 had	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
25	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 had	advmod
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	xcomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the frog			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	know in a quote	past	the frog = frog			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have in a quote	would	the frog = frog			tree rules
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the frog = frog not said here	something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
5	have in a quote	past	you		well property	tree rules
6	let in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	the frog = frog		tree rules
7	go down in a quote	infinitive	the frog = frog not said here		in the water; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in water=Attribute

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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