The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 9
Then in despair he left their villages, and went out into the country, and, seating himself on the bank of a pond began to cry bitterly.
Who acts: he, seating · What happens: leave, go out, seat, begin, cry · To what, where: villages, despair, country, himself, bank
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 (he, seating), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 left | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 despair | case |
| 3 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 villages | nmod:poss |
| 7 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 began | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seating | punct |
| 18 | seating | seat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 began | csubj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 seating | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 bank | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bank | det |
| 22 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seating | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pond | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pond | det |
| 25 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bank | nmod |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 cry | mark |
| 28 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 began | xcomp |
| 29 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 28 cry | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | he | sons's villages | despair | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent village=Theme in despair=Location | ||
| 2 | go out | past | he not said here | the country | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | seat | gerund | himself = he | the bank of a pond | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | seating | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | seating not said here | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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