The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 44

But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome.

Who acts: five authors, three hundred · What happens: try, write, be · To what, where: new fairy tales

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 (five authors, three hundred), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 tiresome	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 tiresome	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sixty	cc
6	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hundred	punct
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 authors	nummod
9	authors	author	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tiresome	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 try	nsubj
11	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 authors	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 write	mark
13	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	xcomp
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tales	amod
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tales	compound
16	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 write	obj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tiresome	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 tiresome	advmod
19	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 tiresome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	present	five authors			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	write not said to happen	to-infinitive	five authors not said here	new fairy tales		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
3	is	present	the three hundred		tiresome 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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