Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 3
To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted untold generations of children, and will continue to delight them to the end of time.
Who acts: popular fairy tales · What happens: belong, have, continue, delight · To what, where: popular fairy tales, delighted untold generations, generations
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (popular fairy tales), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 class | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 class | nummod |
| 3 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 belong | obl |
| 4 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tales | det |
| 6 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tales | amod |
| 7 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tales | compound |
| 8 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 belong | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tales | acl:relcl |
| 11 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 generations | amod |
| 12 | untold | untold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 generations | amod |
| 13 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 generations | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 continue | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 continue | cc |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 continue | aux |
| 19 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 belong | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 delight | mark |
| 21 | delight | delight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 continue | xcomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 delight | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 delight | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 end | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | the popular fairy tales | to one class | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the popular fairy tales | delighted untold generations of children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generation=Patient | ||||
| 3 | continue | future | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | delight | to-infinitive | generations = generation | to the end of time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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