The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 10

The tales have been translated, or, in the case of those from Madame d’Aulnoy’s long stories, adapted, by Mrs. Hunt from the Norse, by Miss Minnie Wright from Madame d’Aulnoy, by Mrs. Lang and Miss Bruce from other French sources, by Miss May Sellar, Miss Farquharson, and Miss Blackley from the German, while the story of ‘Sigurd’ is condensed by the Editor from Mr. William Morris’s prose version of the ‘Volsunga Saga.’

Who acts: Miss Minnie Wright, Editor · What happens: translate, adapt, condense · To what, where: tales, other French sources, long stories, story, prose version

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss Minnie Wright, Editor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tales	det
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 translated	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 translated	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 translated	aux:pass
5	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 case	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 case	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 or	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 case	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 case	det
11	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 translated	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 those	case
13	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 case	nmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	19 stories	case
15	Madame	Madame	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 d’Aulnoy	flat
16	d’Aulnoy	d'Aulnoy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 stories	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 d’Aulnoy	case
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stories	amod
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 those	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 adapted	punct
21	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 stories	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Hunt	punct
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 Hunt	case
24	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Hunt	compound
25	Hunt	Hunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 adapted	obl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 Norse	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Norse	det
28	Norse	Norse	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Hunt	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Wright	punct
30	by	by	ADP	_	33 Wright	case
31	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Wright	compound
32	Minnie	Minnie	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Wright	compound
33	Wright	Wright	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 translated	obl:agent
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 d’Aulnoy	case
35	Madame	Madame	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 d’Aulnoy	compound
36	d’Aulnoy	d'aulnoy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Wright	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Mrs.	punct
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 Mrs.	case
39	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 translated	obl:agent
40	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Mrs.	flat
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 Miss	cc
42	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Mrs.	conj
43	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Miss	flat
44	from	from	ADP	_	47 sources	case
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 sources	amod
46	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 sources	amod
47	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 translated	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 May	punct
49	by	by	ADP	_	51 May	case
50	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 May	compound
51	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 translated	obl:agent
52	Sellar	Sellar	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 May	flat
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Miss	punct
54	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 May	conj
55	Farquharson	Farquharson	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Miss	flat
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 Blackley	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 Blackley	cc
58	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Blackley	compound
59	Blackley	Blackley	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 translated	obl:agent
60	from	from	ADP	_	62 German	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 German	det
62	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Blackley	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 condensed	punct
64	while	while	SCONJ	_	72 condensed	mark
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 story	det
66	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 condensed	nsubj:pass
67	of	of	ADP	_	69 Sigurd	case
68	‘	'	PUNCT	_	69 Sigurd	punct
69	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	Number=Sing	66 story	nmod
70	’	'	PUNCT	_	69 Sigurd	punct
71	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	72 condensed	aux:pass
72	condensed	condense	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 translated	conj
73	by	by	ADP	_	75 Editor	case
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 Editor	det
75	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 condensed	obl
76	from	from	ADP	_	82 version	case
77	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	78 William	nmod:desc
78	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	82 version	nmod:poss
79	Morris	Morris	PROPN	Number=Sing	78 William	flat
80	’s	's	PART	_	78 William	case
81	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	82 version	compound
82	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 condensed	obl
83	of	of	ADP	_	87 Saga	case
84	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	87 Saga	det
85	‘	'	PUNCT	_	86 Volsunga	punct
86	Volsunga	Volsunga	PROPN	Number=Sing	87 Saga	compound
87	Saga	Saga	PROPN	Number=Sing	82 version	nmod
88	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 translated	punct
89	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 translated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	translate	present · perfect · passive	Miss Minnie Wright from Madame d’Aulnoy	the tales	other French sources	may		tree rules
2	adapt	participle		Madame d’Aulnoy's long stories not said here			by Mrs. Hunt from the Norse	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	condense	present · passive	the Editor	the story of Sigurd	William Mr.'s prose version of the Volsunga Saga			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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