The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 16

Then there are tales like “The Fox and the Lapp” from the very north of Europe, where it is dark for half the year and day-light for the other half.

Who acts: tales, tale · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (tales, tale), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 are	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 Fox	case
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Fox	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fox	det
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tales	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Lapp	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lapp	det
11	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Fox	appos
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 Lapp	punct
13	from	from	ADP	_	18 Europe	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Europe	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 north	advmod
16	north	north	ADV	_	18 Europe	advmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Europe	case
18	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tales	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dark	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 dark	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dark	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dark	cop
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Europe	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 year	case
25	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	27 year	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 year	det
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dark	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 light	cc
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 light	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 day	punct
31	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 year	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 half	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 half	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 half	amod
35	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	31 light	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	tales like the Fox from the Europe			there	then		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	tale				year	dark property	tree rules

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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