The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 17

‘If I had had any idea that Osaka was only a copy of Kioto I should never have travelled all this way,’ exclaimed the frog from Kioto, and as he spoke he took his hands from his friend’s shoulders, and they both fell down on the grass.

Who acts: I, Osaka, frogs · What happens: have, be, not travell, exclaim, speak, take · To what, where: idea, copy, way, frog, Kioto, hands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, Osaka, frogs), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 exclaimed	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	aux
5	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 exclaimed	advcl
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 idea	det
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 copy	mark
9	Osaka	Osaka	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 copy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 copy	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 copy	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 copy	det
13	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 idea	acl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Kioto	case
15	Kioto	Kioto	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 copy	nmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 travelled	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 travelled	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 travelled	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 travelled	aux
20	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 copy	acl:relcl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 way	det:predet
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 travelled	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 exclaimed	punct
26	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 frog	det
28	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 exclaimed	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 Kioto	case
30	Kioto	Kioto	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 exclaimed	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 spoke	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 spoke	cc
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 spoke	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 spoke	nsubj
35	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 exclaimed	conj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 took	nsubj
37	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 spoke	ccomp
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hands	nmod:poss
39	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 took	obj
40	from	from	ADP	_	44 shoulders	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 friend	nmod:poss
42	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 shoulders	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 friend	case
44	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 took	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fell	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fell	cc
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fell	nsubj
48	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	49 fell	nsubj
49	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 exclaimed	conj
50	down	down	ADV	_	49 fell	advmod
51	on	on	ADP	_	53 grass	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 grass	det
53	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fell	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	any idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
2	is a	past	Osaka	a copy		of Kioto	tree rules
3	not travell	should · perfect	I	all way			tree rules
4	exclaim speech: express	past		the frog	Kioto		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent frog=Topic
5	speak speech: other	past	Osaka				tree rules
6	take	past	Osaka	Osaka's hands	Osaka's friend's shoulders		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme from shoulder=Initial_Location
7	fall down	past	frogs = frog		the grass	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on grass=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 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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