The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 51

Our stories are almost all old, some from Ireland, before that island was as celebrated for her wrongs as for her verdure; some from Asia, made, I dare say, before the Aryan invasion; some from Moydart, Knoydart, Morar and Ardnamurchan, where the sea streams run like great clear rivers and the saw-edged hills are blue, and men remember Prince Charlie.

Who acts: stories, Asia, I, sea streams, edged hills, men · What happens: be, celebrate, make, dare, say, run · To what, where: Moydart, island, great clear rivers, Prince Charlie · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stories, Asia, I, sea streams), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stories	nmod:poss
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 old	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 some	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 old	conj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Ireland	case
10	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 some	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 celebrated	punct
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 celebrated	mark
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 island	det
14	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 celebrated	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 celebrated	aux:pass
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 celebrated	advmod
17	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 old	parataxis
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 wrongs	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wrongs	nmod:poss
20	wrongs	wrong	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 celebrated	obl
21	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	24 verdure	case
22	for	for	ADP	_	21 as	fixed
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 verdure	nmod:poss
24	verdure	verdure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 celebrated	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 Asia	det
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 Asia	case
28	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 made	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Asia	punct
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	parataxis
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dare	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 dare	nsubj
33	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 made	conj
34	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 dare	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 invasion	punct
36	before	before	ADP	_	39 invasion	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 invasion	det
38	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 invasion	amod
39	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 say	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 Moydart	punct
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	43 Moydart	det
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 Moydart	case
43	Moydart	Moydart	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 old	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Knoydart	punct
45	Knoydart	Knoydart	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Moydart	flat
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Morar	punct
47	Morar	Morar	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Moydart	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 Ardnamurchan	cc
49	Ardnamurchan	Ardnamurchan	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Moydart	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 run	punct
51	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	55 run	advmod
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 streams	det
53	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 streams	compound
54	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 run	nsubj
55	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 Moydart	acl:relcl
56	like	like	ADP	_	59 rivers	case
57	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 rivers	amod
58	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 rivers	amod
59	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 run	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 hills	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 hills	det
62	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 edged	compound
63	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 saw	punct
64	edged	edge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 hills	amod
65	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 blue	nsubj
66	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 blue	cop
67	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 rivers	acl:relcl
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 remember	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 remember	cc
70	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 remember	nsubj
71	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 run	conj
72	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	73 Charlie	compound
73	Charlie	Charlie	PROPN	Number=Sing	71 remember	obj
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Our stories		some Moydart and Morar and Ardnamurchan		almost, old property	tree rules
2	celebrate	past · passive		that island			for Ireland's wrongs; as Ireland's verdure	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as verdure=Attribute
3	make	past	some Asia					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	dare	present	I					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here			before the Aryan invasion		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	run	present	the sea streams				like great clear rivers	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	edge	participle						vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
8	is	present	the edged hills	great clear rivers not said here			blue property	tree rules
9	remember	present	men	Prince Charlie				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent charlie=Theme

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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