English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 19
Just then the frog popped up its head out of the Well of the World's End, and said: “Remember your promise.”
Who acts: frog, your · What happens: pop up, say, remember, promise · To what, where: head, Well, promise · 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 (frog, your), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 popped | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 popped | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 frog | det |
| 4 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 popped | nsubj |
| 5 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 popped | compound:prt |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 popped | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 Well | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Well | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Well | det |
| 12 | Well | Well | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 popped | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 End | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 World | det |
| 15 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 End | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 World | case |
| 17 | End | End | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Well | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 popped | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Remember | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Remember | punct |
| 23 | Remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 promise | nmod:poss |
| 25 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Remember | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 Remember | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop up | past | the frog | Well's head | the Well of the World's End | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the frog not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | remember in a quote | infinitive | your promise | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | |||||
| 4 | promise in a quote | your | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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