The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 13

The stories are taken from those told by grannies to grandchildren in many countries and in many languages-- French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Gaelic, Icelandic, Cherokee, African, Indian, Australian, Slavonic, Eskimo, and what not.

What happens: take, tell · To what, where: stories, those, grandchildren · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux:pass
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 those	case
6	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 taken	obl
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 those	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 grannies	case
9	grannies	grannie	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 grandchildren	case
11	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 told	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 countries	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 countries	amod
14	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 languages	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 languages	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 languages	amod
18	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 countries	conj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 French	punct
20	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Catalan	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Italian	punct
22	Italian	Italian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 French	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Spanish	punct
24	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 French	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Catalan	punct
26	Catalan	Catalan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 countries	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Gaelic	punct
28	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Catalan	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Icelandic	punct
30	Icelandic	Icelandic	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Catalan	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Cherokee	punct
32	Cherokee	Cherokee	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Catalan	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 African	punct
34	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Catalan	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Indian	punct
36	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Catalan	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Australian	punct
38	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Catalan	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Slavonic	punct
40	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Catalan	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Eskimo	punct
42	Eskimo	Eskimo	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Catalan	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 what	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 what	cc
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 taken	obl
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 what	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · passive		the stories		those		in many countries French Catalan and Icelandic and Cherokee and Slavonic and Eskimo and many languages	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from that=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	participle			grandchildren			by grannies	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to grandchild=Recipient

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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