The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 11
‘Strangers and handsome youths are always welcome here.
Who acts: Strangers · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strangers), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 welcome | punct |
| 2 | Strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 welcome | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 youths | cc |
| 4 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 youths | amod |
| 5 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Strangers | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 welcome | cop |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 welcome | advmod |
| 8 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 welcome | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 welcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Strangers and handsome youths | here | always, welcome 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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