Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 19
Presently she spied the Frog in the water, and called out to him:
Who acts: gutter · What happens: spy, call out · To what, where: Frog, water, Crow
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), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 spied | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spied | nsubj |
| 3 | spied | spy | 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 spied | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 called | cc |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spied | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 called | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 called | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spy | past | gutter | the Frog | the water | presently property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | Crow | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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