The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 44
So the young men set out once more; and again, this time, the work of the frog was much the best and the neatest.
Who acts: young men, time · What happens: set out, be
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 (young men, time), 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 | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 set | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 best | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 best | cc |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 best | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 best | punct |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 best | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 work | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 work | det |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 best | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 frog | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 frog | det |
| 20 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 best | obl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 best | cop |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 best | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 best | det |
| 24 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 set | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 neatest | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 neatest | det |
| 27 | neatest | neat | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 best | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the young men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this time | again | of the frog; good property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | this time not said here | tree rules |
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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