The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 28
These facts help to account for the sameness of the stories everywhere; and the uniformity of human fancy in early societies must be the cause of many other resemblances.
Who acts: facts, uniformity · What happens: help, be · To what, where: account, cause
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 (facts, uniformity), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 facts | det |
| 2 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 account | mark |
| 5 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sameness | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sameness | det |
| 8 | sameness | sameness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stories | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stories | det |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sameness | nmod |
| 12 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 stories | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 cause | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 uniformity | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 uniformity | det |
| 16 | uniformity | uniformity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cause | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fancy | case |
| 18 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fancy | amod |
| 19 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uniformity | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 societies | case |
| 21 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 societies | amod |
| 22 | societies | society | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fancy | nmod |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 cause | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 cause | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cause | det |
| 26 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 resemblances | case |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 resemblances | amod |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 resemblances | amod |
| 30 | resemblances | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cause | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | this facts | account | for the sameness of the stories | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is a | must | the uniformity of human fancy in early societies | the cause | of many other resemblances | 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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