The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 3

One day they all three told their mother they meant to get married.

Who acts: sons · What happens: tell, mean, get, marry · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 three	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 they	nmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 meant	nsubj
10	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 meant	xcomp
13	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 get	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	sons = son	sons's mother	day	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
2	mean	past	sons = son			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	marry	participle	sons = son not said here			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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