The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 1

Once upon a time in the country of Japan there lived two frogs, one of whom made his home in a ditch near the town of Osaka, on the sea coast, while the other dwelt in a clear little stream which ran through the city of Kioto.

Who acts: clear little stream · What happens: live, make, dwell, run · To what, where: two frogs, home, ditch, other, clear little stream, city

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Two Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clear little stream), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 country	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 country	det
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Japan	case
9	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 country	nmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lived	advmod
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 frogs	nummod
13	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 frogs	appos
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 one	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 home	nmod:poss
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ditch	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 ditch	det
23	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 town	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 town	det
26	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ditch	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Osaka	case
28	Osaka	Osaka	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 town	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 coast	punct
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 coast	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 coast	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 coast	compound
33	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 dwelt	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 dwelt	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 other	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 dwelt	obl:unmarked
38	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lived	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 stream	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 stream	det
41	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 stream	amod
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 stream	amod
43	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 dwelt	obl
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 ran	nsubj
45	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 stream	acl:relcl
46	through	through	ADP	_	48 city	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 city	det
48	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ran	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Kioto	case
50	Kioto	Kioto	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 city	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		two frogs	there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past		Japan's home	a ditch near the town of Osaka		on the sea coast	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Product
3	dwell	participle		the other	a clear little stream			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stream=Location
4	run	past	a clear little stream		the city of Kioto			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through city=Trajectory

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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