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title: It was delightful to find that they both felt the same wish--to lear… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was delightful to find that they both felt the same wish--to learn a little more of their native country--and as there was no sort of hurry they stretched themselves out in a cool, damp place, and agreed that they would have a good rest before they parted to go their ways. Who acts: It, frogs, so
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Two Frogs, sentence 7

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It was delightful to find that they both felt the same wish--to learn a little more of their native country--and as there was no sort of hurry they stretched themselves out in a cool, damp place, and agreed that they would have a good rest before they parted to go their ways.

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**Who acts:** It, frogs, sort · **What happens:** be, find, feel, learn, agree, have · **To what, where:** same wish, more, cool damp place, good rest, ways, hurry · **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 (It, frogs, sort), 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:pg641:14:7
# text = It was delightful to find that they both felt the same wish--to learn a little more of their native country--and as there was no sort of hurry they stretched themselves out in a cool, damp place, and agreed that they would have a good rest before they parted to go their ways.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	appos	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	ccomp	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	advcl	_	_
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	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | delightful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | past | frogs *= frog* | the same wish |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive |  | more |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | past | no sort of hurry |  |  | a cool damp place |  | stretch *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **have** | would | frogs *= frog* | a good rest |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
| 8 | **part** | past | frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **go** | to-infinitive | frogs *= frog* *not said here* | frogs's ways |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 10 | **sort** |  |  | hurry |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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