The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 6

They looked at each other for a moment without speaking, and then fell into conversation, explaining the cause of their meeting so far from their homes.

Who acts: frogs · What happens: look, speak, fall, explain, cause · To what, where: conversation, cause, meeting · 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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 looked	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 moment	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 speaking	mark
10	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fell	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 fell	advmod
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 conversation	case
16	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 explaining	punct
18	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 fell	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cause	det
20	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 explaining	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 meeting	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 meeting	nmod:poss
23	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cause	nmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 far	advmod
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 explaining	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 homes	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 homes	nmod:poss
28	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 far	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	frogs = frog		moment	at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
2	speak speech: other	gerund	frogs = frog not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	frogs = frog not said here		then	into conversation result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into conversation=Result
4	explain speech: assert	gerund	frogs = frog not said here	the cause of frogs's meeting		far property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
5	cause			frogs's meeting			nom cause «event transitive»: of=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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