The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 18
The peoples who tell the stories differ in colour; language, religion, and almost everything else; but they all love a nursery tale.
Who acts: peoples · What happens: tell, differ, love · To what, where: stories, colour, nursery tale · 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 (peoples), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peoples | det |
| 2 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 differ | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 peoples | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 colour | case |
| 9 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 differ | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 language | punct |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 differ | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 religion | punct |
| 13 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 language | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 everything | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 everything | cc |
| 16 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 17 everything | advmod |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 language | conj |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 everything | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 love | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 love | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 love | advmod |
| 23 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 differ | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tale | det |
| 25 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tale | compound |
| 26 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 love | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the peoples | the stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | differ | present | the peoples | colour | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | love | present | peoples = people | a nursery tale | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus |
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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