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title: So the young men set out once more; and again, this time, the work o… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the young men set out once more; and again, this time, the work of the frog was much the best and the neatest. Who acts: young men, time. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 44

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So the young men set out once more; and again, this time, the work of the frog was much the best and the neatest.

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**Who acts:** young men, time · **What happens:** set out, be

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men, time), 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:pg641:36:44
# text = So the young men set out once more; and again, this time, the work of the frog was much the best and the neatest.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	neatest	neat	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | participle | the young men |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | this time |  |  |  | again | of the frog; good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | this time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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