The Red Fairy Book, Opening, sentence 9
But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in the Red Fairy Book may have the attraction of being less familiar than many of the old friends.
Who acts: good stories, some, attraction · What happens: be, leave, hope, have · To what, where: STORY, attraction
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 (good stories, some, attraction), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 are | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | advcl |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stories | amod |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | nsubj |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 left | advmod |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hoped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hoped | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hoped | aux:pass |
| 12 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 left | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 have | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Book | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Book | det |
| 17 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Book | compound |
| 18 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Book | compound |
| 19 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 some | nmod |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hoped | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 attraction | det |
| 23 | attraction | attraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 familiar | case |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 familiar | cop |
| 26 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 familiar | advmod |
| 27 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 attraction | acl:relcl |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 many | case |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 familiar | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 friends | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 friends | det |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 friends | amod |
| 33 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 many | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | good stories not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | good stories | enough property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hope | present · passive | STORY | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | may | some | the attraction | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attraction=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | gerund | the attraction not said here | than many of the old friends; familiar, less 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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