The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 7
When an author publishes a book 'out of his own head,' he writes the preface for his own pleasure.
Who acts: author · What happens: publish, write, please · To what, where: book, own head, preface
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 (author), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 publishes | mark |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 author | det |
| 3 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 publishes | nsubj |
| 4 | publishes | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 writes | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 publishes | obj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 book | punct |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 head | amod |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 publishes | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 publishes | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 writes | nsubj |
| 16 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 preface | det |
| 18 | preface | preface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 writes | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 pleasure | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pleasure | amod |
| 22 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 writes | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 writes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | present | a author | a book | author's own head | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Result | |||
| 2 | write | present | author | the preface | for author's own pleasure | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent preface=Result for pleasure=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | please | author | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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