Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 7
She paused here for a moment and was just about to begin to swallow the Frog when the Frog gave another chuckle.
Who acts: gutter, Frog · What happens: pause, be, swallow, give · To what, where: Frog, chuckle
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 paused | nsubj |
| 2 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 paused | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paused | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 begin | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 begin | cop |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 about | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 begin | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 begin | mark |
| 12 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 paused | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 swallow | mark |
| 14 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begin | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Frog | det |
| 16 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 swallow | obj |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 gave | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Frog | det |
| 19 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 swallow | advcl |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 chuckle | det |
| 22 | chuckle | chuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | gutter | here | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | gutter not said here | about, begin property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swallow | to-infinitive | gutter not said here | the Frog | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the Frog | another chuckle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuckle=Theme |
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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