The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 12
These Fairy Books, however, are not written by the Editor, as he has often explained, 'out of his own head.'
Who acts: Editor, author · What happens: not write, explain · To what, where: Fairy Books
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 (Editor, 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 Books | det |
| 2 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Books | amod |
| 3 | Books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Books | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 written | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 written | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 written | advmod |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Editor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Editor | det |
| 12 | Editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 written | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 explained | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 explained | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 explained | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 explained | aux |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 explained | advmod |
| 18 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 written | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 head | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 head | punct |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 head | amod |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 explained | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 written | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not write | present · passive | the Editor | this Fairy Books | however property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | present · perfect | author | often property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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