--- title: Then they took a polite farewell of each other, and set off for home… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then they took a polite farewell of each other, and set off for home again, and to the end of their lives they believed that Osaka and Kioto, which are as different to look at as two towns can be, were as like as two peas. Who acts: frogs, Osaka. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/14/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Two Frogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/14/) / 18 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 18 Then they took a polite farewell of each other, and set off for home again, and to the end of their lives they believed that Osaka and Kioto, which are as different to look at as two towns can be, were as like as two peas. **Who acts:** frogs, Osaka · **What happens:** take, set off, believe, be, look · **To what, where:** polite farewell · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (frogs, Osaka), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:14:18 # text = Then they took a polite farewell of each other, and set off for home again, and to the end of their lives they believed that Osaka and Kioto, which are as different to look at as two towns can be, were as like as two peas. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 farewell farewell NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 nmod _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 off off ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 28 Osaka Osaka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 Kioto Kioto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 as as ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 parataxis _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 42 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 46 as as ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 like like ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 as as ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 50 nummod _ _ 50 peas pea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | frogs *= frog* | a polite farewell of each | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme | | 2 | **set off** | past | frogs *= frog* *not said here* | | | | again | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **believe** | past | frogs *= frog* | | | | to the end of frogs's lives | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present | Osaka and Kioto | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | Osaka and Kioto *not said here* | | | | | at two towns | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at town=Theme | | 6 | **can** | can | Osaka and Kioto | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **be** | past | frogs *= frog* *not said here* | | | | | like two peas | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/14/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/14/19/) - ↑ back to [The Two Frogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/14/)