Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 16
As soon as she had turned her back the Frog gave one desperate jump, and dived into the well.
Who acts: gutter, Frog · What happens: turn back, give, dive · To what, where: Frog, one desperate jump, well
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 (gutter, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 gave | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 turned | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | aux |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turned | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADP | _ | 6 turned | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Frog | det |
| 10 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 jump | nummod |
| 13 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 jump | amod |
| 14 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dived | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dived | cc |
| 17 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 well | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 well | det |
| 20 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dived | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | past · perfect | gutter | Frog | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the Frog | one desperate jump | soon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme | |||
| 3 | dive | past | the Frog not said here | the well | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into well=Location |
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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