The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 58
[Contes Populaires des Bassoutos.]
Who acts: Contes · What happens: de · To what, where: Bassoutos
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Contes), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 4 des | punct |
| 2 | Contes | Contes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 des | nsubj |
| 3 | Populaires | Populaires | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Contes | flat |
| 4 | des | de | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Bassoutos | Bassoutos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 des | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 des | punct |
| 7 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 4 des | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | de | present | Contes | Bassoutos | 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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