English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 28
For she was glad the girl would have to obey a nasty frog.
Who acts: girl · What happens: be, have, obey · To what, where: nasty frog
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 glad | case |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 have | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 obey | mark |
| 10 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 frog | det |
| 12 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 frog | amod |
| 13 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obey | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | would | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | a nasty frog | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: 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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