English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 11
Suddenly she heard a croaking voice, and she looked up and saw a great frog with goggle eyes looking at her and speaking to her.
Who acts: woman, goggle eyes · What happens: hear, look up, see, look, speak · To what, where: croaking voice, great frog, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, goggle eyes), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 5 | croaking | croaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 voice | compound |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 frog | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 frog | amod |
| 16 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | goggle | goggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | compound |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 frog | nmod |
| 20 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 eyes | acl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looking | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 speaking | cc |
| 24 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 looking | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 speaking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | woman | a croaking voice | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look up | past | woman | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | woman not said here | a great frog | with goggle eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | look | gerund | goggle eyes not said here | at woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | gerund | goggle eyes not said here | woman | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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: «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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