English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 25

“Whatever can that be?” cried out the stepmother, and the girl had to tell her all about it, and what she had promised the frog.

Who acts: stepmother, girl · What happens: be, have, tell, promise · To what, where: stepmother, frog · 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 (stepmother, 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	_	5 be	punct
2	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 be	obj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 be	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	cop
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 cried	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stepmother	det
11	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 it	advmod
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 what	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 what	cc
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 cried	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 promised	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 promised	aux
28	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 what	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 frog	det
30	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 promised	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive	the stepmother		cry property	tree rules
2	have	past	the girl			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	stepmother	about darling	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about it=Topic
4	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	girl	the frog		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent frog=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: «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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