The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 10
They still ask the Editor how he can invent so many stories—more than Shakespeare, Dumas, and Charles Dickens could have invented in a century.
Who acts: ladies, Fairy · What happens: ask, invent · To what, where: Editor, many stories, Charles
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (ladies, Fairy), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 ask | advmod |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Editor | det |
| 5 | Editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 invent | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 invent | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 invent | aux |
| 9 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stories | amod |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 invent | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 more | punct |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 ask | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 Shakespeare | case |
| 16 | Shakespeare | Shakespeare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 more | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Dumas | punct |
| 18 | Dumas | duma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 more | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 invented | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 invented | cc |
| 21 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | Dickens | Dickens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Charles | flat |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 invented | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 invented | aux |
| 25 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ask | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 century | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 century | det |
| 28 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 invented | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | ladies = lady | the Editor | still | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent editor=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | invent not said to happen | can | Fairy | many stories | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | ||||
| 3 | invent | could · perfect · passive | Charles | century | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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