The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 23
That is how this Fairy Book was made up for your entertainment.
Who acts: That, your · What happens: be, make up, entertain · To what, where: Fairy Book
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 (That, your), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 how | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 how | cop |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Book | nsubj |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Book | compound |
| 6 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 how | advcl:relcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 made | compound:prt |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 entertainment | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 entertainment | nmod:poss |
| 12 | entertainment | entertainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 how | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make up | past · passive | Fairy Book | for your entertainment | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | entertain | your | nom entertainment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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