The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 10

The stories in the Fairy Books have generally been such as old women in country places tell to their grandchildren.

Who acts: stories, old women · What happens: have, be, tell · To what, where: grandchildren · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, old women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 Books	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Books	det
5	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Books	compound
6	Books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stories	nmod
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	generally	generally	ADV	_	10 such	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 such	cop
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	7 have	xcomp
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 tell	mark
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 women	amod
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tell	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 places	case
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 places	compound
16	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 women	nmod
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 such	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 grandchildren	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 grandchildren	nmod:poss
20	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tell	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the stories in the Fairy Books			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	the stories in the Fairy Books not said here		generally, such property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	old women in country places	women's grandchildren		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to grandchild=Recipient

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.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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