The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 21

The old puzzle remains a puzzle--why do the stories of the remotest people so closely resemble each other?

Who acts: old puzzle, stories · What happens: remain, resemble · To what, where: puzzle, each

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 (old puzzle, stories), 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	3 puzzle	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 puzzle	amod
3	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remains	nsubj
4	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 puzzle	det
6	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remains	obj
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 resemble	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 resemble	advmod
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 resemble	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stories	det
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 resemble	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 people	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
14	remotest	remote	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 resemble	obl
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 resemble	advmod
17	closely	closely	ADV	_	18 resemble	advmod
18	resemble	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 puzzle	acl:relcl
19	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	18 resemble	obj
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 each	fixed
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 remains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	the old puzzle	a puzzle					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme puzzle=Attribute
2	resemble	present · do-support	the stories	each				of the remotest people; closely property	tree rules

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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