The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 23

The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang, who has translated and adapted them from the French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages.

Who acts: Mrs. · What happens: translate, adapt, work · To what, where: fairy books, confessions, French

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (Mrs.), 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	3 books	det
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 books	compound
3	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 translated	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 translated	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 translated	aux:pass
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 wholly	advmod
7	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	16 translated	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 work	det
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 translated	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Mrs.	case
11	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 work	nmod
12	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Mrs.	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 translated	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 translated	nsubj:pass
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 translated	aux
16	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 adapted	cc
18	adapted	adapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 translated	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 adapted	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 French	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 French	det
22	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 adapted	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 German	punct
24	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 French	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Portuguese	punct
26	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 French	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Italian	punct
28	Italian	Italian	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 French	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Spanish	punct
30	Spanish	Spanish	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 French	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Catalan	punct
32	Catalan	Catalan	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 French	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 languages	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 languages	cc
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 languages	amod
36	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 adapted	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 translated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	translate	present · perfect · passive		the fairy books		wholly property	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	adapt	past		confessions = confession	the French and German and Portuguese and Italian and Spanish and Catalan	other languages obl	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	work		Mrs.				nom work «act intransitive»: of=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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