The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 36

All the history of Greece till about 800 B.C. is a string of the fairy tales, all about Theseus and Heracles and Oedipus and Minos and Perseus is a Cabinet des Fes, a collection of fairy tales.

Who acts: history, Cabinet · What happens: be · To what, where: string

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 (history, Cabinet), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 history	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 history	det
3	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 string	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Greece	case
5	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 history	nmod
6	till	till	ADP	_	8 800	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 800	advmod
8	800	800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 history	nmod
9	B.C	B.C	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 800	nmod:unmarked
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 B.C	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 string	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 string	det
13	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 tales	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tales	det
16	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tales	compound
17	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 string	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Theseus	punct
19	all	all	ADV	_	21 Theseus	advmod
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 Theseus	case
21	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 tales	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Heracles	cc
23	Heracles	Heracles	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Theseus	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Oedipus	cc
25	Oedipus	Oedipus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Theseus	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Minos	cc
27	Minos	Minos	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Theseus	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Perseus	cc
29	Perseus	Perseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Theseus	conj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 des	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Cabinet	det
32	Cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 des	nsubj
33	des	de	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 string	parataxis
34	Fes	fe	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 des	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 collection	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 collection	det
37	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Fes	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 tales	case
39	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tales	compound
40	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 collection	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 string	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all history of Greece till 800 B.C	a string				of the fairy tales about Theseus and Heracles and Oedipus and Minos and Perseus	tree rules
2	is	present	a Cabinet					de property	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 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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