The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 16
Many tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told by mothers and nurses in Hungary; others are familiar to Russian nurseries; the Servians are responsible for some; a rather peculiarly fanciful set of stories are adapted from the Roumanians; others are from the Baltic shores; others from sunny Sicily; a few are from Finland, and Iceland, and Japan, and Tunis, and Portugal.
Who acts: Finland, mothers, others, Servians, few · What happens: translate, adapt, tell, be · To what, where: Many tales, those, peculiarly fanciful set, Roumanians, Baltic shores, Finland · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Finland, mothers, others, Servians), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tales | amod |
| 2 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 book | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tales | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 translated | aux:pass |
| 7 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 adapted | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 adapted | cc |
| 10 | adapted | adapt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 translated | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 told | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 adapted | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 mothers | case |
| 16 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 told | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nurses | cc |
| 18 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mothers | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Hungary | case |
| 20 | Hungary | Hungary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mothers | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 familiar | punct |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 familiar | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 familiar | cop |
| 24 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 translated | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 nurseries | case |
| 26 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 nurseries | amod |
| 27 | nurseries | nursery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 familiar | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 responsible | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Servians | det |
| 30 | Servians | Servian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 responsible | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 responsible | cop |
| 32 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 translated | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 some | case |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 responsible | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 adapted | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 set | det |
| 37 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 38 peculiarly | advmod |
| 38 | peculiarly | peculiarly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 set | amod |
| 39 | fanciful | fanciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 set | amod |
| 40 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 adapted | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 stories | case |
| 42 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 set | nmod |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 adapted | aux:pass |
| 44 | adapted | adapt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 translated | conj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 Roumanians | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Roumanians | det |
| 47 | Roumanians | Roumanian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 adapted | obl |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 54 shores | punct |
| 49 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 shores | nsubj |
| 50 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 shores | cop |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 shores | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 shores | det |
| 53 | Baltic | baltic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 shores | amod |
| 54 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 translated | conj |
| 55 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 56 others | punct |
| 56 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 translated | conj |
| 57 | from | from | ADP | _ | 59 Sicily | case |
| 58 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 Sicily | amod |
| 59 | Sicily | Sicily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 others | nmod |
| 60 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 65 Finland | punct |
| 61 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 62 few | det |
| 62 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 Finland | nsubj |
| 63 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 65 Finland | cop |
| 64 | from | from | ADP | _ | 65 Finland | case |
| 65 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 translated | obl:agent |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 Iceland | punct |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 Iceland | cc |
| 68 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 Finland | conj |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 71 Japan | punct |
| 70 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 Japan | cc |
| 71 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 Finland | conj |
| 72 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 Tunis | punct |
| 73 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 74 Tunis | cc |
| 74 | Tunis | Tunis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 65 Finland | conj |
| 75 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 77 Portugal | punct |
| 76 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 77 Portugal | cc |
| 77 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 translated | obl:agent |
| 78 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | present · passive | Finland and Iceland and Japan and Tunis | Many tales in this book | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | adapt | participle | Finland and Iceland and Japan and Tunis not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle · passive | mothers in Hungary and nurses | those | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | others | to Russian nurseries; familiar property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the Servians | for some; responsible property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | adapt | present · passive | a peculiarly fanciful set of stories | the Roumanians | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | present | others | the Baltic shores | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | present | a few | Finland and Iceland and Japan and Tunis | tree rules |
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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