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title: They looked at each other for a moment without speaking, and then fe… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They looked at each other for a moment without speaking, and then fell into conversation, explaining the cause of their meeting so far from their homes. Who acts: frogs. 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 6

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They looked at each other for a moment without speaking, and then fell into conversation, explaining the cause of their meeting so far from their homes.

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**Who acts:** frogs · **What happens:** look, speak, fall, explain, cause · **To what, where:** conversation, cause, meeting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg641:14:6
# text = They looked at each other for a moment without speaking, and then fell into conversation, explaining the cause of their meeting so far from their homes.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obl	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | frogs *= frog* |  |  |  | moment | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | frogs *= frog* *not said here* |  |  |  | then | into conversation *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into conversation=Result |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | frogs *= frog* *not said here* | the cause of frogs's meeting |  |  |  | far *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic |
| 5 | **cause** |  |  | frogs's meeting |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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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