The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 22
Of course, in the immeasurable past, they have been carried about by conquering races, and learned by conquering races from vanquished peoples.
What happens: carry, conquer, learn, vanquish · To what, where: stories, races
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: 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 past | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 past | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 past | det |
| 6 | immeasurable | immeasurable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 past | amod |
| 7 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 past | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 carried | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 carried | aux:pass |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 carried | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 conquering | mark |
| 15 | conquering | conquer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 carried | advcl |
| 16 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 conquering | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 learned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 learned | cc |
| 19 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 carried | conj |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 conquering | mark |
| 21 | conquering | conquer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 learned | advcl |
| 22 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 conquering | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 peoples | case |
| 24 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 peoples | amod |
| 25 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 conquering | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present · perfect · passive | stories = story | of the immeasurable past; about property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme of past=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | conquer | gerund | races | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient | |||||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | conquer | gerund | races | from vanquished peoples | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient | ||||
| 5 | vanquish | participle | 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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