The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 29

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

Who acts: Folklore legends, healthy youngster · What happens: have, follow · To what, where: followed childhood, ages, wholesome love

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Folklore legends, healthy youngster), 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	Folklore	folklore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 legends	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 legends	punct
3	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 myths	punct
5	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 legends	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tales	cc
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	compound
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 legends	conj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 childhood	amod
11	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 ages	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ages	det
14	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 has	mark
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 youngster	det
18	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 youngster	amod
19	youngster	youngster	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	nsubj
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 love	det
22	wholesome	wholesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 love	amod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 instinctive	cc
24	instinctive	instinctive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wholesome	conj
25	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 has	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 stories	case
27	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 love	nmod
28	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 has	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 marvelous	punct
30	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fantastic	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 unreal	cc
32	manifestly	manifestly	ADV	_	33 unreal	advmod
33	unreal	unreal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fantastic	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Folklore legends and myths and fairy tales	followed childhood	through the ages		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent childhood=Patient
2	follow	participle					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	every healthy youngster	a wholesome love		for stories	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient

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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (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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