The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 13
Smith and Elder have permitted the publication of two of Mr. Ralston’s versions from the Russian.
What happens: permit · To what, where: Smith
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 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Elder | cc |
| 3 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Smith | conj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 permitted | aux |
| 5 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 publication | det |
| 7 | publication | publication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 permitted | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 two | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 publication | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 versions | case |
| 11 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ralston | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Ralston | Ralston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 versions | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Ralston | case |
| 14 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 two | nmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Russian | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Russian | det |
| 17 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 versions | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | present · perfect · passive | Smith and Elder | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme publication=Location |
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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