The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 46

Perhaps some of you may have read a book called ‘Kenneth; or the Rear-Guard of the Grand Army’ of Napoleon.

Who acts: Rear Guard · What happens: read, call · To what, where: some, book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rear Guard), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 read	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 read	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 some	nmod
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 read	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 read	aux
7	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 book	det
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 read	obj
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 book	acl
11	‘	‘	ADP	_	12 Kenneth	case
12	Kenneth	Kenneth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 Guard	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 Guard	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Guard	det
16	Rear	rear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Guard	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Rear	punct
18	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 read	obl:agent
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Army	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Army	det
21	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Army	amod
22	Army	Army	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Guard	nmod
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 Army	punct
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Napoleon	case
25	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Army	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	may · perfect · passive	the Rear Guard of the Grand Army of Napoleon	some				perhaps property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient book=Topic
2	call	participle		a book not said here				‘ Kenneth	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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