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title: Their first thought was to reward the frog, who had unconsciously be… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Their first thought was to reward the frog, who had unconsciously been the means of curing them of their misfortunes. Who acts: first thought, frog, witches. 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 62

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Their first thought was to reward the frog, who had unconsciously been the means of curing them of their misfortunes.

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**Who acts:** first thought, frog, witches · **What happens:** be, cure, think · **To what, where:** witches

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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 (first thought, frog, witches), 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:pg641:36:62
# text = Their first thought was to reward the frog, who had unconsciously been the means of curing them of their misfortunes.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	unconsciously	unconsciously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	nsubj	_	_
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	curing	cure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | witches's first thought |  |  |  |  | reward *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | the frog |  |  |  |  | mean, unconsciously *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cure** | gerund | the frog *not said here* | witches *= witch* |  |  |  | of witches's misfortunes | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source of misfortune=Theme |
| 4 | **think** |  | witches *= witch* |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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