The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 31
Various savage tales, which needed a good deal of editing, are derived from the learned pages of the 'Journal of the Anthropological Institute.'
Who acts: Various savage tales · What happens: need, derive, learn, deal, page · To what, where: good deal, Various savage tales, learned pages, editing, Journal
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 (Various savage tales), 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 | Various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tales | amod |
| 2 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tales | amod |
| 3 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 derived | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 needed | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 needed | nsubj |
| 6 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tales | acl:relcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deal | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deal | amod |
| 9 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 needed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 editing | case |
| 11 | editing | editing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deal | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tales | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 derived | aux:pass |
| 14 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 pages | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pages | det |
| 17 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 pages | amod |
| 18 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 derived | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Journal | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Journal | det |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Journal | punct |
| 22 | Journal | Journal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 pages | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Institute | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Institute | det |
| 25 | Anthropological | Anthropological | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Institute | compound |
| 26 | Institute | Institute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Journal | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 derived | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 derived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | Various savage tales | a good deal of editing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | derive | present · passive | Various savage tales | the learned pages of the Journal of the Anthropological Institute | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from page=Material | ||||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | deal | editing | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | page | the Journal of the Anthropological Institute | nom page «communication transitive»: of=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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