The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 11

The Editor has to thank his friend, M. Charles Marelles, for permission to reproduce his versions of the ‘Pied Piper,’ of ‘Drakestail,’ and of ‘Little Golden Hood’ from the French, and M. Henri Carnoy for the same privilege in regard to ‘The Six Sillies’ from _La Tradition_.

Who acts: Editor · What happens: have, thank, reproduce, pi · To what, where: friend, versions

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 (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 Editor	det
2	Editor	Editor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 thank	mark
5	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 has	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thank	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Charles	punct
9	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Charles	compound
10	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 friend	appos
11	Marelles	Marelles	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Charles	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 permission	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 permission	case
14	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thank	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 reproduce	mark
16	reproduce	reproduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 permission	acl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 versions	nmod:poss
18	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 reproduce	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 Piper	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Piper	det
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Pied	punct
22	Pied	pi	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 Piper	amod
23	Piper	Piper	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 versions	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Drakestail	case
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Drakestail	punct
28	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 ’	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Drakestail	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 Drakestail	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Hood	cc
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 Hood	case
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	36 Hood	punct
34	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Hood	amod
35	Golden	Golden	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Hood	compound
36	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Drakestail	conj
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 Hood	punct
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 French	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 French	det
40	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Hood	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 Carnoy	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 Carnoy	cc
43	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Henri	compound
44	Henri	Henri	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Carnoy	compound
45	Carnoy	Carnoy	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Hood	appos
46	for	for	ADP	_	49 privilege	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 privilege	det
48	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 privilege	amod
49	privilege	privilege	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 Carnoy	nmod
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 regard	case
51	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 privilege	nmod
52	to	to	ADP	_	56 Sillies	case
53	‘	'	PUNCT	_	56 Sillies	punct
54	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Sillies	det
55	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 Sillies	nummod
56	Sillies	silly	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 regard	nmod
57	’	's	PART	_	56 Sillies	case
58	from	from	ADP	_	61 Tradition	case
59	_	_	PUNCT	_	61 Tradition	punct
60	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 Tradition	compound
61	Tradition	Tradition	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Sillies	nmod
62	_	_	PUNCT	_	45 Carnoy	punct
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Editor				tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	the Editor not said here		Editor's friend	for permission	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent friend=Theme for permission=Attribute
3	reproduce	to-infinitive	the Editor not said here	Editor's versions of the Pied Piper			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent version=Patient
4	pi	participle					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 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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