The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 9
These explanations have frequently been offered already; but, as far as ladies and children are concerned, to no purpose.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: offer, be · To what, where: explanations, purpose
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 (ladies), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 explanations | det |
| 2 | explanations | explanation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 offered | aux |
| 4 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 6 offered | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 offered | aux:pass |
| 6 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 offered | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 concerned | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 concerned | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 but | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 concerned | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 concerned | mark |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 concerned | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 children | cc |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ladies | conj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 concerned | cop |
| 18 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 offered | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 purpose | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 purpose | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 purpose | det |
| 22 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present · perfect · passive | this explanations | to no purpose goal; frequently property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to purpose=Goal | ||||
| 2 | is | present | ladies and children | concerned, far 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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