The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 15
Though these explanations are not attended to by the Editor’s customers, he makes them once more, for the relief of his conscience.
Who acts: customers, Editor · What happens: not attend, make · To what, where: explanations
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 (customers, Editor), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 attended | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 explanations | det |
| 3 | explanations | explanation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attended | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 attended | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 attended | advmod |
| 6 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 makes | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 attended | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 customers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Editor | det |
| 10 | Editor | Editor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 customers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Editor | case |
| 12 | customers | customer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attended | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 attended | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 makes | obj |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 makes | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 relief | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 relief | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 relief | det |
| 22 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 makes | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 conscience | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 conscience | nmod:poss |
| 25 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 relief | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not attend | present · passive | the Editor's customers | this explanations | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Editor | explanations = explanation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
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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