The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 12
Lady Frances Balfour has kindly copied an old version of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk,’ and Messrs.
What happens: copy · To what, where: Lady Frances
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: 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 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Frances | compound |
| 2 | Frances | france | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 copied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Balfour | Balfour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 copied | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 copied | aux |
| 5 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 6 copied | advmod |
| 6 | copied | copy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 version | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 version | amod |
| 9 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 copied | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Jack | case |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Jack | punct |
| 12 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 version | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Beanstalk | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Beanstalk | det |
| 15 | Beanstalk | Beanstalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Jack | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 copied | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 copied | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Messrs | cc |
| 19 | Messrs | Messrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 copied | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 copied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present · perfect · passive | Lady Frances | kindly 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 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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