The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 62
Their first thought was to reward the frog, who had unconsciously been the means of curing them of their misfortunes.
Who acts: first thought, frog, witches · What happens: be, cure, think · To what, where: witches
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 (first thought, frog, witches), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thought | amod |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reward | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reward | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 reward | mark |
| 6 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 frog | det |
| 8 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reward | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 means | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 means | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 means | aux |
| 12 | unconsciously | unconsciously | ADV | _ | 15 means | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 means | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 means | nsubj |
| 15 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 frog | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 curing | mark |
| 17 | curing | cure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 means | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 curing | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 misfortunes | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 curing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | witches's first thought | reward property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the frog | mean, unconsciously property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cure | gerund | the frog not said here | witches = witch | of witches's misfortunes | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source of misfortune=Theme | |||
| 4 | think | witches = witch | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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