The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 29

In this volume there are stories from the natives of Rhodesia, collected by Mr. Fairbridge, who speaks the native language, and one is brought by Mr. Cripps from another part of Africa, Uganda.

Who acts: stories, Fairbridge, Cripps · What happens: be, collect, speak, bring · To what, where: volume, natives, native language, one, part · 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 (stories, Fairbridge, Cripps), 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	_	3 volume	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 volume	det
3	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 are	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 natives	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 natives	det
9	natives	native	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 are	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Rhodesia	case
11	Rhodesia	Rhodesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 natives	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 collected	punct
13	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 natives	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 Fairbridge	case
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Fairbridge	nmod:desc
16	Fairbridge	Fairbridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 collected	obl:agent
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 speaks	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 speaks	nsubj
19	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Fairbridge	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 language	det
21	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 language	amod
22	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 speaks	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brought	cc
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 brought	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 brought	aux:pass
27	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 are	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 Cripps	case
29	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Cripps	nmod:desc
30	Cripps	Cripps	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obl
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 part	case
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 part	det
33	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Africa	case
35	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 part	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Uganda	punct
37	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Africa	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	stories		this volume; there	from the natives of Rhodesia	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in volume=Location
2	collect	participle		the natives of Rhodesia not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	speak speech: other	present	Fairbridge Mr.	the native language			tree rules
4	bring	present · passive	Cripps Mr.	one	another part of Africa and Uganda		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from part=Initial_Location

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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