English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 20
“All right,” said the girl; for thought she, “what harm can a frog do me?”
Who acts: girl · What happens: say, do · To what, where: girl · 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 (girl), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 All | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 thought | case |
| 11 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 15 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 16 harm | det |
| 16 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 frog | det |
| 19 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | acl:relcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | iobj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | can | girl | the girl = girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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