The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 68
But turkeys and chickens are creatures who don’t like people that are not as themselves.
Who acts: turkeys, creatures, that · What happens: be, not do, not be · To what, where: creatures
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turkeys, creatures, that), 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 | _ | 6 creatures | cc |
| 2 | turkeys | turkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 creatures | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 chickens | cc |
| 4 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turkeys | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 creatures | cop |
| 6 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 do | nsubj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 do | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 themselves | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 themselves | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 themselves | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 themselves | case |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 people | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 creatures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | turkeys and chickens | creatures | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do | present | creatures | like people | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | that | as turkeys = turkey | 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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