The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 10

This appears to be the philosophy of prefaces in general, and perhaps authors might be more daring and candid than they are with advantage, and write regular criticisms of their own books in their prefaces, for nobody can be so good a critic of himself as the author--if he has a sense of humour.

Who acts: This, authors, ', nobody, author · What happens: appear, be, write, have, preface, sense · To what, where: philosophy, regular criticisms, prefaces, sense, humour

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (This, authors, ', nobody), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 appears	nsubj
2	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 philosophy	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 philosophy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 philosophy	det
6	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 appears	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 prefaces	case
8	prefaces	preface	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 philosophy	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 general	case
10	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 prefaces	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 daring	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 daring	cc
13	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 daring	advmod
14	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 daring	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 daring	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 daring	cop
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 daring	amod
18	daring	daring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 philosophy	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 candid	cc
20	candid	candid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 daring	conj
21	than	than	ADP	_	25 advantage	case
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 advantage	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 advantage	cop
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 advantage	case
25	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 daring	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 write	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 write	cc
28	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 appears	parataxis
29	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 criticisms	amod
30	criticisms	criticism	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 write	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 books	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 books	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 books	amod
34	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 criticisms	nmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 prefaces	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 prefaces	nmod:poss
37	prefaces	preface	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 write	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 good	punct
39	for	for	SCONJ	_	44 good	mark
40	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	44 good	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 good	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 good	cop
43	so	so	ADV	_	44 good	advmod
44	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 critic	amod
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 critic	det
46	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 write	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 himself	case
48	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 critic	nmod
49	as	as	ADP	_	51 author	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 author	det
51	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 write	obl
52	--	--	PUNCT	_	55 has	punct
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 has	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 has	nsubj
55	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 write	parataxis
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 sense	det
57	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 has	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 humour	case
59	humour	humour	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 sense	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	present	This				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	This not said here	the philosophy		of prefaces in general	tree rules
3	is	might	authors			daring, perhaps property	tree rules
4	be		authors not said here				tree rules
5	is	present	'			than advantage	tree rules
6	write	infinitive		regular criticisms of ''s own books	''s prefaces	as the author	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent criticism=Recipient critic=Topic
7	is	can	nobody			good property	tree rules
8	have a condition, not said to happen	present	author	a sense of humour			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
9	preface		'				nom preface «communication transitive»: poss=agent
10	sense			humour			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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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