diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2079f94..60c6135 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ data/samples/
 src/frontend_vue/node_modules/
 src/frontend_vue/dist/
 dockerfiles/database/create.js
+*__pycache__/
diff --git a/src/backend_flask/app.py b/src/backend_flask/app.py
index bf2ee94..a5eddcb 100644
--- a/src/backend_flask/app.py
+++ b/src/backend_flask/app.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 from flask import Flask, render_template, request, url_for, redirect
-from valency import Frame, Slot
+from valency.Frame import Frame, Slot, frames_from_db_entry
 from valency.reduce_functions import reduce_functions
 
 """
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ CORPORA = ["ssj", "kres"]
 app_index = {c: {} for c in CORPORA}
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+valdb = None
 app = Flask(__name__)
 
 
@@ -50,6 +51,18 @@ app = Flask(__name__)
 CORS(app)
 
 
+# DEV -------------------------------.
+
+@app.route("/api/dev")
+def api_dev():
+    cur = valdb.kres.find({"sid": "F0015940.37.2"})
+    frames = []
+    for ent in cur:
+        frames += frames_from_db_entry(ent)
+    return json.dumps([x.to_json() for x in frames])
+
+# DEV -------------------------------^
+
 # INDEX SELECTION -------------------.
 
 @app.route("/api/words/<corpus>")
diff --git a/src/pkg/valency/valency/Frame.py b/src/pkg/valency/valency/Frame.py
index ea7c0c5..fceb0c8 100644
--- a/src/pkg/valency/valency/Frame.py
+++ b/src/pkg/valency/valency/Frame.py
@@ -2,10 +2,36 @@ import logging
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+def frames_from_db_entry(dbent):
+    def _full_tid(tid):
+        return ".".join([dbent["sid"], str(tid)])
+
+    frames = []
+    if "srl_links" not in dbent:
+        return []
+    srldict = {}
+    for srl in dbent["srl_links"]:
+        key = str(srl["from"]) 
+        if key not in srldict:
+            srldict[key] = [srl]
+        else:
+            srldict[key] += [srl]
+    for hwtid, srlarr in srldict.items():
+        frames += [Frame(
+            hw_lemma=_full_tid(hwtid),
+            tids=[_full_tid(x["to"]) for x in srlarr],
+            slots=[
+                Slot(
+                    functor=srl["afun"],
+                    tids=[_full_tid(srl["to"])]
+                ) for srl in srlarr
+            ]
+        )]
+    return frames
 
 class Frame():
-    def __init__(self, tids, deep_links=None, slots=None, hw=None):
-        self.hw = hw
+    def __init__(self, tids, deep_links=None, slots=None, hw_lemma=None):
+        self.hw = hw_lemma
         self.tids = tids   # list of tokens with the same hw_lemma
         # Each tid = "S123.t123";
         # you can get sentence with vallex.get_sentence(S123)
@@ -33,7 +59,7 @@ class Frame():
         slots = []
         for link in deep:
             slots.append(Slot(
-                functor=link["functor"],
+                functor=link["afun"],
                 tids=[link["to"]]
             ))
         return slots
diff --git a/src/pkg/valency/valency/__init__.py b/src/pkg/valency/valency/__init__.py
index 6a41c6a..e69de29 100644
--- a/src/pkg/valency/valency/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pkg/valency/valency/__init__.py
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-from valency.Frame import Frame, Slot
diff --git a/src/pkg/valency/valency/reduce_functions.py b/src/pkg/valency/valency/reduce_functions.py
index f6f785a..397afd7 100644
--- a/src/pkg/valency/valency/reduce_functions.py
+++ b/src/pkg/valency/valency/reduce_functions.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Input: list of Frame objects, output: list of Frame objects.
 # App uses reduce_0, 1 and 5
 
-from valency import Frame, Slot
+from valency.Frame import Frame, Slot
 from copy import deepcopy as DC
 import logging