The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 11

And the Editor still avers, in Prefaces, that he did not invent one of the stories; that nobody knows, as a rule, who invented them, or where, or when.

Who acts: Editor, nobody, rule · What happens: aver, not invent, know, invent · To what, where: Prefaces, one, rule, stories

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 (Editor, nobody, rule), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 avers	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Editor	det
3	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 avers	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 avers	advmod
5	avers	aver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Prefaces	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Prefaces	case
8	Prefaces	preface	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 avers	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 invent	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 invent	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 invent	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 invent	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 invent	advmod
14	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 avers	conj
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 invent	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 stories	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stories	det
18	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 knows	punct
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 nobody	det
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 knows	nsubj
22	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 avers	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rule	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 rule	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rule	det
26	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 knows	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 invented	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 invented	nsubj
29	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 rule	acl:relcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 invented	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 where	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 where	cc
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 invented	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 when	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 when	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 knows	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 avers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	aver	present	the Editor		Prefaces	still	tree rules
2	not invent	past · do-support	Editor	one of the stories			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Result
3	know	present	nobody	a rule			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer rule=Stimulus
4	invent	past	a rule	stories = story			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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