The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 15

Much has been left out in places, and the narrative has been broken up into conversations, the characters telling each other how matters stand, and speaking for themselves, as children, and some older people, prefer them to do.

Who acts: characters, matters, older people · What happens: leave out, break up, tell, stand, speak, prefer · To what, where: places, narrative, conversations, each, matters · 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: who acts (characters, matters, older people), 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	Much	much	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 left	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 places	case
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 broken	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 broken	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrative	det
11	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broken	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 broken	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 broken	aux:pass
14	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 broken	compound:prt
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 conversations	case
17	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 broken	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 characters	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 characters	det
20	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 conversations	conj
21	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 characters	acl
22	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	21 telling	obj
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 each	fixed
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 stand	advmod
25	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stand	nsubj
26	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 telling	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 children	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 children	cc
29	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 children	csubj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 themselves	case
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 speaking	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 children	punct
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 children	case
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 broken	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 prefer	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 prefer	cc
37	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 people	det
38	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 people	amod
39	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 prefer	nsubj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 people	punct
41	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 broken	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 prefer	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 do	mark
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 prefer	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave out	present · perfect · passive			places		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»
2	break up	present · perfect · passive		the narrative		into conversations and the characters result; as children	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into conversation=Result
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the characters not said here	each			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient
4	stand	present	matters				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other	gerund				for matters = matter	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	prefer	present	some older people	matters = matter			tree rules
7	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	some older people not said here				vn act-114-1 «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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