The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 11
The Danish story of ‘The Princess in the Chest’ need not be read to a very nervous child, as it rather borders on a ghost story.
What happens: not read · To what, where: Danish story, nervous child
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 read | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Princess | case |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Princess | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Chest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Chest | det |
| 10 | Chest | Chest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Princess | nmod |
| 11 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 10 Chest | case |
| 12 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 read | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 read | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 read | aux:pass |
| 15 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 nervous | advmod |
| 19 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 child | amod |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 read | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 borders | punct |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 borders | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 borders | nsubj |
| 24 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 25 borders | advmod |
| 25 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 read | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 story | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 story | det |
| 28 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 story | compound |
| 29 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 borders | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read | present · passive | the Danish story of the Princess in the Chest | a nervous child | as borders on a ghost story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to child=Recipient |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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