The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 19
In the fairy tales of no country are 'improper' incidents common, which is to the credit of human nature, as they were obviously composed mainly for children.
Who acts: country · What happens: be, compose, tell · To what, where: improper, fairy tales, incidents · 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 (country), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tales | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tales | det |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tales | compound |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 improper | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tales | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 improper | cop |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 improper | punct |
| 10 | improper | improper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 common | nsubj |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 improper | punct |
| 12 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 common | nsubj |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 credit | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 credit | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 credit | cop |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 credit | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 credit | det |
| 19 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 common | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 nature | case |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nature | amod |
| 22 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 credit | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 composed | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 composed | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 composed | aux:pass |
| 27 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 28 composed | advmod |
| 28 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 common | conj |
| 29 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 28 composed | advmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 children | case |
| 31 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 composed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | improper | the fairy tales of no country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | to the credit; of human nature | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | compose | past · passive | incidents = incident | for children; mainly, obviously property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for child=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | tell | no country | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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