English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 34
So at last she lifted the frog up on to her lap, and it lay there for a time, till at last it said:
Who acts: girl, lap · What happens: lift up, lie, say · To what, where: frog, last · 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, lap), 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 | _ | 5 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lifted | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lifted | nsubj |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 frog | det |
| 7 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 lifted | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 lap | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 on | fixed |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 lap | nmod:poss |
| 12 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | parataxis |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 lay | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 last | punct |
| 22 | till | till | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lay | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 last | acl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | girl | the frog | last | on girl's lap | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent frog=Theme at last=Destination on lap=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | lie | past | lap | there | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | lap | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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