--- title: “I’ll go to my sister the frog,” he thought to himself, “and she wil… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “I’ll go to my sister the frog,” he thought to himself, “and she will sew them together for me”; and he set off at once for the swamp in which his sister lived. Who acts: rock, great many, sister. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, great many, sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3282:16:95 # text = “I’ll go to my sister the frog,” he thought to himself, “and she will sew them together for me”; and he set off at once for the swamp in which his sister lived. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ” " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 sew sew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 off off ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 30 obl _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 swamp swamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | future | rock | the frog | | | | to my sister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sister=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | rock | | rock | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **sew** *in a quote* | future | great many *= many* | pieces *= piece* | | | | for rock; together *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Product for i=Beneficiary | | 4 | **set off** | past | rock | | | | | for the swamp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **live** | past | rock's sister | | | the swamp | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/96/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/)