Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 11

Here she placed the Frog upon the ground and was just about to eat him when the Frog said:

Who acts: Frog · What happens: place, be, say · To what, where: Frog, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 placed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Frog	det
5	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eat	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 about	advmod
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 eat	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 placed	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	obj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 said	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Frog	det
18	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	advcl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past	Frog	the Frog	the ground; here		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme upon ground=Destination
2	is	past	Frog not said here			Crow obj; about, eat property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the Frog				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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 11