The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 17
The Lapps are a people not fond of soap and water, and very much given to art magic.
Who acts: Lapps · What happens: be, give · To what, where: people, art magic
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 (Lapps), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lapps | det |
| 2 | Lapps | lapp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 fond | advmod |
| 7 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 soap | case |
| 9 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fond | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 water | cc |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soap | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 given | cc |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADV | _ | 16 given | advmod |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 people | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 magic | case |
| 18 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 magic | compound |
| 19 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Lapps | a people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | a people not said here | art magic | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to magic=Recipient |
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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