The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 9

But, perhaps, nobody reads prefaces except other authors; and critics, who hope that they will find enough in the preface to enable them to do without reading any of the book.

Who acts: nobody, critics, ' · What happens: read, hope, find, enable, do · To what, where: prefaces, enough, preface, ', any · 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 (nobody, critics, '), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 reads	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 perhaps	punct
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 reads	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 perhaps	punct
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 reads	nsubj
6	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	prefaces	preface	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reads	obj
8	except	except	ADP	_	10 authors	case
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 authors	amod
10	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 prefaces	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 critics	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 critics	cc
13	critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reads	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hope	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hope	nsubj
16	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 critics	acl:relcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 find	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 find	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 find	aux
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hope	ccomp
21	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 find	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 preface	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 preface	det
24	preface	preface	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 find	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 enable	mark
26	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 find	advcl
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 enable	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 enable	xcomp
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 reading	mark
31	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 do	advcl
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 reading	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 book	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 book	det
35	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 any	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reads	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	present	nobody	prefaces		except other authors; critics obl; perhaps property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preface=Topic
2	hope	present	critics				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	find	future	'	enough	the preface		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Topic
4	enable	to-infinitive	' not said here	'			tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	' not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	read	gerund	' not said here	any			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Topic

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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