Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 22
“I am so sorry, Sister Crow,” replied the Frog, “but the fact is, I cannot get up the sides of this well.
Who acts: Frog · What happens: be, reply, not be · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Crow | punct |
| 7 | Sister | sister | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Crow | amod |
| 8 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sorry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Frog | det |
| 13 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sides | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 sides | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 get | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fact | det |
| 18 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | cop |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 get | advmod |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sides | compound |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 get | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sides | det |
| 27 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Frog | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 this | case |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 sides | nmod |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 sides | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Frog and the get sides of this = frog | Sister Crow obl; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Frog and the get sides of this | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | can · present | the Frog and the get sides of this = frog | the fact obl; get property | 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: «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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