The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 8
In a second gleaning of the fields of Fairy Land we cannot expect to find a second Perrault.
Who acts: we · What happens: not expect, find · To what, where: second gleaning, second Perrault
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 (we), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 gleaning | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gleaning | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 gleaning | amod |
| 4 | gleaning | gleaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 expect | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fields | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fields | det |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gleaning | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Land | case |
| 9 | Fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Land | amod |
| 10 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fields | nmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 expect | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 expect | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 expect | advmod |
| 14 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 expect | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Perrault | det |
| 18 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 Perrault | amod |
| 19 | Perrault | Perrault | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | can | we | a second gleaning of the fields of Fairy Land | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | a second Perrault | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perrault=Topic |
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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