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title: So one fine morning in the spring they both set out along the road t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So one fine morning in the spring they both set out along the road that led from Kioto to Osaka, one from one end and the other from the other. Who acts: frogs, road. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Two Frogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 3

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So one fine morning in the spring they both set out along the road that led from Kioto to Osaka, one from one end and the other from the other.

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**Who acts:** frogs, road · **What happens:** set out, lead · **To what, where:** road, Osaka, Kioto

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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 (frogs, road), 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:pg641:14:3
# text = So one fine morning in the spring they both set out along the road that led from Kioto to Osaka, one from one end and the other from the other.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	both	both	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	along	along	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kioto	Kioto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Osaka	Osaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	appos	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | present | frogs *= frog* |  |  | the road | morning | both *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the road |  | Osaka | Kioto | from one end | from the other | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to osaka=Patient |

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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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