English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 29
So the girl went and opened the door, and there was the frog from the Well of the World's End.
Who acts: girl, frog · What happens: go, open, be · To what, where: door
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, frog), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 opened | cc |
| 6 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opened | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 was | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 frog | det |
| 14 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Well | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Well | det |
| 17 | Well | Well | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 frog | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 End | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 World | det |
| 20 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 End | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 World | case |
| 22 | End | End | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Well | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the girl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | past | the girl not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | the frog from the Well of the World's End | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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