The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 5

It took them a long time and a great many hops to reach the top, but there they were at last, and what was the surprise of each to see another frog before him!

Who acts: It, frogs · What happens: take, reach, be, see · To what, where: frogs, top, surprise, frog

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 (It, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hops	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hops	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hops	amod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hops	amod
11	hops	hop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 time	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 reach	mark
13	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 top	det
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reach	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 last	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 last	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 last	expl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 last	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 last	cop
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 surprise	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 surprise	cc
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 surprise	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 surprise	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 surprise	det
28	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 each	case
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 surprise	nmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 frog	det
34	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 see	obj
35	before	before	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It	frogs = frog		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive		the top				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme
3	is	past	frogs = frog		there		last property	tree rules
4	is a	past		the surprise			of each	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive		another frog		before mountain		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus

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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