The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 65
Of course not a creature in Vadso believed that, and declared that if it made the mountaineers happier to talk such nonsense, why, let them!
Who acts: creature · What happens: believe, declare, make, talk, let · To what, where: such nonsense, mountaineers
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 creature | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 creature | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 believed | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Vadso | case |
| 7 | Vadso | Vadso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 creature | nmod |
| 8 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 believed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 declared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 declared | cc |
| 12 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 believed | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 made | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 made | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 declared | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountaineers | det |
| 18 | mountaineers | mountaineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 happier | nsubj |
| 19 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 made | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 talk | mark |
| 21 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 happier | advcl |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 nonsense | amod |
| 23 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 talk | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 why | punct |
| 25 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 made | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 let | punct |
| 27 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 declared | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 let | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | of a creature in Vadso | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | make a condition, not said to happen | past | creature | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material | ||||
| 4 | talk | to-infinitive | creature not said here | such nonsense | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | mountaineers = mountaineer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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