The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 53
There are also modern tales by a learned Scandinavian named Topelius.
Who acts: modern tales · What happens: be, learn, name · To what, where: learned Scandinavian
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 (modern tales), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 modern | advmod |
| 4 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tales | amod |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Scandinavian | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Scandinavian | det |
| 8 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Scandinavian | amod |
| 9 | Scandinavian | scandinavian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 10 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Scandinavian | acl |
| 11 | Topelius | Topelius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 named | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | modern tales | there | by a learned Scandinavian | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by scandinavian=Location | |||
| 2 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | name | participle | a learned Scandinavian not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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