The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 18
Then they took a polite farewell of each other, and set off for home again, and to the end of their lives they believed that Osaka and Kioto, which are as different to look at as two towns can be, were as like as two peas.
Who acts: frogs, Osaka · What happens: take, set off, believe, be, look · To what, where: polite farewell · 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 (frogs, Osaka), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 farewell | det |
| 5 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 farewell | amod |
| 6 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 farewell | nmod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 set | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 believed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 believed | cc |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 believed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 lives | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lives | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 end | nmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 believed | nsubj |
| 26 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 be | mark |
| 28 | Osaka | Osaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 be | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Kioto | cc |
| 30 | Kioto | Kioto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Osaka | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 different | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 different | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 different | cop |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 different | advmod |
| 35 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Osaka | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 look | mark |
| 37 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 different | advcl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 towns | case |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 towns | case |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 towns | nummod |
| 41 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 look | obl |
| 42 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 be | aux |
| 43 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 believed | ccomp |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 were | punct |
| 45 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 46 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 were | advmod |
| 47 | like | like | ADP | _ | 50 peas | case |
| 48 | as | as | ADP | _ | 50 peas | case |
| 49 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 peas | nummod |
| 50 | peas | pea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 were | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | frogs = frog | a polite farewell of each | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme | |||
| 2 | set off | past | frogs = frog not said here | again | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | believe | past | frogs = frog | to the end of frogs's lives | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Osaka and Kioto | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | Osaka and Kioto not said here | at two towns | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at town=Theme | ||||
| 6 | can | can | Osaka and Kioto | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | be | past | frogs = frog not said here | like two peas | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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