English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 40
Do what you're bid, or out you go, you and your froggie.”
Who acts: you · What happens: do, be, go, froggie
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 (you), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 bid | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bid | nsubj |
| 4 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bid | cop |
| 5 | bid | bid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Do | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 froggie | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 froggie | cc |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 froggie | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 froggie | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 froggie | cc |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 froggie | nmod:poss |
| 15 | froggie | froggie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | bid property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | froggie | you | tree rules |
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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