The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 47
Real fairies never preach or talk slang.
Who acts: Real fairies · What happens: not preach, talk · To what, where: slang
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 (Real fairies), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fairies | amod |
| 2 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 preach | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 preach | advmod |
| 4 | preach | preach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 talk | cc |
| 6 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 preach | conj |
| 7 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 talk | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 preach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not preach speech: other | present | Real fairies | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | talk | present | Real fairies not said here | slang | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent slang=Patient |
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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