The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 3
So one fine morning in the spring they both set out along the road that led from Kioto to Osaka, one from one end and the other from the other.
Who acts: frogs, road · What happens: set out, lead · To what, where: road, Osaka, Kioto
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, road), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 set | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 morning | nummod |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spring | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spring | det |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 9 | both | both | ADV | _ | 10 set | advmod |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 led | nsubj |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 road | acl:relcl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Kioto | case |
| 18 | Kioto | Kioto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Osaka | case |
| 20 | Osaka | Osaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 Osaka | appos |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 end | nummod |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 other | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 other | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 end | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 other | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 other | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 led | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | present | frogs = frog | the road | morning | both property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | lead | past | the road | Osaka | Kioto | from one end | from the other | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to osaka=Patient |
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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