The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 20

Other tales are told in various parts of Europe, and in many languages; but all people, black, white, brown, red, and yellow, are like each other when they tell stories; for these are meant for children, who like the same sort of thing, whether they go to school and wear clothes, or, on the other hand, wear skins of beasts, or even nothing at all, and live on grubs and lizards and hawks and crows and serpents, like the little Australian blacks.

Who acts: people, children · What happens: tell, mean, like, go, wear, live · To what, where: Other tales, various parts, stories, these, same sort, school · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, children), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tales	amod
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 parts	case
6	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 parts	amod
7	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Europe	case
9	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 parts	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 languages	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 languages	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 languages	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 languages	amod
14	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 black	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 black	cc
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 black	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 black	punct
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 white	punct
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 black	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 brown	punct
24	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 black	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 red	punct
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 brown	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 yellow	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 yellow	cc
29	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 each	punct
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 each	cop
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 each	case
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 yellow	conj
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 each	fixed
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 tell	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tell	nsubj
37	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	advcl
38	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 tell	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 meant	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 meant	mark
41	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 meant	nsubj:pass
42	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 meant	aux:pass
43	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	parataxis
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 children	case
45	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 meant	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 like	punct
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 like	nsubj
48	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 children	acl:relcl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 sort	det
50	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 sort	amod
51	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 like	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 thing	case
53	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 sort	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 go	punct
55	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	57 go	mark
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 go	nsubj
57	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 meant	conj
58	to	to	ADP	_	59 school	case
59	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 go	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 wear	cc
61	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 go	conj
62	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	61 wear	obj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 wear	punct
64	or	or	CCONJ	_	71 wear	cc
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 or	punct
66	on	on	ADP	_	69 hand	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 hand	det
68	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 hand	amod
69	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 wear	obl
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 hand	punct
71	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 go	conj
72	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 wear	obj
73	of	of	ADP	_	74 beasts	case
74	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	72 skins	nmod
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 nothing	punct
76	or	or	CCONJ	_	78 nothing	cc
77	even	even	ADV	_	78 nothing	advmod
78	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	71 wear	obl
79	at	at	ADP	_	80 all	case
80	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	78 nothing	nmod
81	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 live	punct
82	and	and	CCONJ	_	83 live	cc
83	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 go	conj
84	on	on	ADP	_	85 grubs	case
85	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	83 live	obl
86	and	and	CCONJ	_	87 lizards	cc
87	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	85 grubs	conj
88	and	and	CCONJ	_	89 hawks	cc
89	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	85 grubs	conj
90	and	and	CCONJ	_	91 crows	cc
91	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	85 grubs	conj
92	and	and	CCONJ	_	93 serpents	cc
93	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	85 grubs	conj
94	,	,	PUNCT	_	99 blacks	punct
95	like	like	ADP	_	99 blacks	case
96	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	99 blacks	det
97	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	99 blacks	amod
98	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	99 blacks	amod
99	blacks	black	NOUN	Number=Plur	85 grubs	conj
100	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		Other tales	various parts of Europe	in many languages	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	present	people	stories			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	mean	present · passive		these		for children	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for child=Attribute
4	like	present	children	the same sort of thing			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sort=Theme
5	go	present	people		school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location
6	wear	present	people not said here	clothes			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source
7	wear	infinitive	people not said here	skins of beasts	the other hand	nothing obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent skin=Source
8	live	present	people not said here		grubs and lizards and hawks and crows and serpents and the little Australian blacks		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grub=Location
9	sort			thing			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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