The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 5

A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and not the author of the Fairy Tales, just as a distinguished man of science is only the Editor, not the Author of Nature.

Who acts: sense, author · What happens: compel, keep, repeat, be, sense · To what, where: Editor, literary honesty

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 (sense, author), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sense	det
2	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 compels	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 honesty	case
4	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 honesty	amod
5	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sense	nmod
6	compels	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Editor	det
8	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 compels	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 compels	advcl
11	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 keep	xcomp
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 Editor	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Editor	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Editor	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Editor	det
16	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repeating	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Editor	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Editor	cc
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 author	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 author	det
21	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Editor	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 Tales	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Tales	det
24	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Tales	amod
25	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 author	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 man	punct
27	just	just	ADV	_	31 man	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 man	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Tales	appos
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 science	case
33	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 man	nmod
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 Editor	cop
35	only	only	ADV	_	37 Editor	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Editor	det
37	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 compels	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Author	punct
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 Author	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Author	det
41	Author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 Editor	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 Nature	case
43	Nature	Nature	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Author	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 compels	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	compel	present	a sense of literary honesty	the Editor	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent editor=Patient
2	keep	to-infinitive	a sense of literary honesty not said here		tree rules
3	repeat	gerund	a sense of literary honesty not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	present	sense	the Editor	tree rules
5	is a	present	the author of the Fairy Tales	the Editor and the Author of Nature	tree rules
6	sense			literary honesty	nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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