The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 14
The stories are not literal, or word by word translations, but have been altered in many ways to make them suitable for children.
Who acts: stories, word translations · What happens: not be, alter, make, word · To what, where: many ways, stories
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 (stories, word translations), 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 | 5 literal | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 literal | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 literal | advmod |
| 5 | literal | literal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 word | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 word | cc |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 literal | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 translations | case |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 translations | compound |
| 11 | translations | translation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 word | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 altered | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 altered | cc |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 altered | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 altered | aux:pass |
| 16 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 literal | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ways | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ways | amod |
| 19 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 altered | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 altered | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 make | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 children | case |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 suitable | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 literal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the stories | literal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | alter | present · perfect · passive | many ways | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | stories = story | suitable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | ||||
| 4 | word | word translations | nom word «communication transitive»: by=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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