The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 17
Though they usually take the side of courage and kindness, and the virtues in general, the old story-tellers admire successful cunning as much as Homer does in the Odyssey.
Who acts: stories, virtues, Homer · What happens: take, admire, do · To what, where: side, successful cunning, Odyssey
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, virtues, Homer), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 courage | case |
| 8 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 side | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kindness | cc |
| 10 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 courage | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 admire | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 admire | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 virtues | det |
| 14 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 admire | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 general | case |
| 16 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 virtues | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 admire | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tellers | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tellers | amod |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tellers | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 story | punct |
| 22 | tellers | teller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 admire | nsubj |
| 23 | admire | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 24 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cunning | amod |
| 25 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 admire | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cunning | amod |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 does | mark |
| 29 | Homer | Homer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 does | nsubj |
| 30 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 much | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Odyssey | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Odyssey | det |
| 33 | Odyssey | Odyssey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 does | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | stories = story | the side of courage and kindness | usually property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | |||
| 2 | admire | present | the virtues in general | successful cunning | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cunning=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | present | Homer | the Odyssey | 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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