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title: The Kioto frog turned his nose towards Osaka, and the Osaka frog tur… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kioto frog turned his nose towards Osaka, and the Osaka frog turned his nose towards Kioto; but the foolish things forgot that when they stood up their great eyes lay in the backs of their heads, and that though their noses might point to the places to which they wanted to go their eyes beheld t
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 13

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The Kioto frog turned his nose towards Osaka, and the Osaka frog turned his nose towards Kioto; but the foolish things forgot that when they stood up their great eyes lay in the backs of their heads, and that though their noses might point to the places to which they wanted to go their eyes beheld the places from which they had come.

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**Who acts:** Kioto frog, Osaka frog, foolish things, frogs, great eyes, that · **What happens:** turn, forget, stand up, lay, point, want · **To what, where:** nose, Osaka, Kioto, backs, places

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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 (Kioto frog, Osaka frog, foolish things, frogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:14:13
# text = The Kioto frog turned his nose towards Osaka, and the Osaka frog turned his nose towards Kioto; but the foolish things forgot that when they stood up their great eyes lay in the backs of their heads, and that though their noses might point to the places to which they wanted to go their eyes beheld the places from which they had come.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Kioto	Kioto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Osaka	Osaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Osaka	Osaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kioto	Kioto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj	_	_
43	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
46	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	obl	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	xcomp	_	_
57	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nsubj	_	_
59	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	ccomp	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obj	_	_
62	from	from	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	66	obl	_	_
64	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
65	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
66	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	61	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the Kioto frog | idea's nose |  | Osaka |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nose=Theme towards osaka=Trajectory |
| 2 | **turn** | past | the Osaka frog | idea's nose |  | Kioto |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nose=Theme towards kioto=Trajectory |
| 3 | **forget** | past | the foolish things |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand up** | past | frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lay** | present | frogs's great eyes |  |  | the backs of frogs's heads |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in back=Destination |
| 6 | **point** | might | that |  | the places |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to place=Recipient |
| 7 | **want** | past | frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  | to the places | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **behold** | past | frogs's eyes | the places |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
| 10 | **come** | past · perfect | frogs *= frog* |  |  | the places |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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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