--- title: Suddenly she heard a croaking voice, and she looked up and saw a gre… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Suddenly she heard a croaking voice, and she looked up and saw a great frog with goggle eyes looking at her and speaking to her. Who acts: woman, goggle eyes. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Well of the World's End](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/) / 11 # English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 11 Suddenly she heard a croaking voice, and she looked up and saw a great frog with goggle eyes looking at her and speaking to her. **Who acts:** woman, goggle eyes · **What happens:** hear, look up, see, look, speak · **To what, where:** croaking voice, great frog, woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, goggle eyes), 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:pg7439:47:11 # text = Suddenly she heard a croaking voice, and she looked up and saw a great frog with goggle eyes looking at her and speaking to her. 1 Suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 croaking croaking NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 goggle goggle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | woman | a croaking voice | | | | suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **look up** | past | woman | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **see** | past | woman *not said here* | a great frog | | | | with goggle eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus | | 4 | **look** | gerund | goggle eyes *not said here* | | | | | at woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | goggle eyes *not said here* | | woman | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/12/) - ↑ back to [The Well of the World's End](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/47/)