The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 42

Nobody can write a new fairy tale; you can only mix up and dress up the old, old stories, and put the characters into new dresses, as Miss Thackeray did so well in ‘Five Old Friends.’

Who acts: Nobody, you, Miss · What happens: write, mix up, dress up, put, do · To what, where: new fairy tale, old old stories, characters, new dresses

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 (Nobody, you, Miss), 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	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 write	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 write	aux
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tale	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tale	amod
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tale	compound
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 write	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 mix	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 mix	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 mix	aux
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 mix	advmod
12	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 write	parataxis
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 mix	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dress	cc
15	dress	dress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 mix	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 dress	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stories	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stories	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 old	punct
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stories	amod
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dress	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 put	cc
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 write	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 characters	det
26	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 dresses	case
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dresses	amod
29	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 did	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 did	mark
32	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 did	nsubj
33	Thackeray	Thackeray	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Miss	flat
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 put	parataxis
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 well	advmod
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 did	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	41 Friends	case
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 Friends	punct
39	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 Friends	nummod
40	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Friends	amod
41	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 did	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	can	Nobody	a new fairy tale			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	mix up	can	you				vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	dress up	infinitive	you not said here	the old old stories			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
4	put	infinitive		the characters	new dresses		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent character=Goal
5	do	past	Miss			in Five Old Friends; well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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