The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 4

Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both monotonous and unavailing.

Who acts: Fairy, introductions · What happens: demand, be · To what, where: preface, Editor

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 (Fairy, introductions), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demands	nsubj
3	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Fairy	appos
4	demands	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 preface	det
6	preface	preface	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demands	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Editor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Editor	det
9	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preface	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 monotonous	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 monotonous	cc
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 introductions	det
13	introductions	introduction	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 monotonous	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 monotonous	cop
15	inevitably	inevitably	ADV	_	17 monotonous	advmod
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 monotonous	advmod
17	monotonous	monotonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 demands	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 unavailing	cc
19	unavailing	unavailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 monotonous	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 demands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	present	each Fairy	a preface		the Editor			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme preface=Precondition from editor=Source
2	is	present	this introductions					inevitably, monotonous property	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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