English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 42
Well, just as the day was beginning to break what should the frog say but:
Who acts: day, frog · What happens: begin, break, say · 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 (day, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 beginning | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 beginning | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 beginning | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beginning | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beginning | aux |
| 8 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 break | mark |
| 10 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 beginning | xcomp |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 say | obj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 frog | det |
| 14 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 break | ccomp |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 beginning | cc |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | the day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | break | to-infinitive | the day not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | should | the frog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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