The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 30
Three tales from the Punjaub were collected and translated by Major Campbell.
What happens: collect, translate · To what, where: Three tales
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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 tales | nummod |
| 2 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Punjaub | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Punjaub | det |
| 5 | Punjaub | Punjaub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tales | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 collected | aux:pass |
| 7 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 translated | cc |
| 9 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 collected | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Campbell | case |
| 11 | Major | Major | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Campbell | compound |
| 12 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 translated | obl:agent |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past · passive | Three tales from the Punjaub | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | translate | participle | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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