The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 7

The Editor’s business is to hunt for collections of these stories told by peasant or savage grandmothers in many climes, from New Caledonia to Zululand; from the frozen snows of the Polar regions to Greece, or Spain, or Italy, or far Lochaber.

Who acts: business, Polar regions · What happens: be, tell, freeze, snow · To what, where: New Caledonia, stories · 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 (business, Polar regions), 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 Editor	det
2	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 business	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Editor	case
4	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hunt	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hunt	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hunt	mark
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 collections	case
9	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunt	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 stories	case
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 stories	det
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 collections	nmod
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 stories	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 grandmothers	case
15	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grandmothers	amod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 savage	cc
17	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 peasant	conj
18	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	obl:agent
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 climes	case
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 climes	amod
21	climes	clime	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grandmothers	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Caledonia	punct
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 Caledonia	case
24	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Caledonia	amod
25	Caledonia	Caledonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hunt	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Zululand	case
27	Zululand	Zululand	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Caledonia	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 snows	punct
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 snows	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 snows	det
31	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 snows	amod
32	snows	snow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunt	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 regions	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 regions	det
35	Polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 regions	amod
36	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 snows	nmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 Greece	case
38	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 regions	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Spain	punct
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 Spain	cc
41	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hunt	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Italy	punct
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 Italy	cc
44	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Spain	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 Lochaber	punct
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 Lochaber	cc
47	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 Lochaber	advmod
48	Lochaber	Lochaber	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Spain	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Editor's business		New Caledonia to Zululand	for collections of this stories; hunt property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle		this stories not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	snow		the Polar regions to Greece				nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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