The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 6
Like nature, popular tales are too vast to be the creation of a single modern mind.
Who acts: popular tales · What happens: be · To what, where: creation
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 (popular tales), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 2 nature | case |
| 2 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vast | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 nature | punct |
| 4 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tales | amod |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 vast | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 vast | cop |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 vast | advmod |
| 8 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 creation | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 creation | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 creation | det |
| 12 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vast | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mind | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mind | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mind | amod |
| 16 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mind | amod |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 creation | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 vast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | popular tales | like nature; vast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | popular tales not said here | the creation | of a single modern mind | 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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