The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 12

It has been altered, and is really much more horrid in the language of the Danes, who, as history tells us, were not a nervous or timid people.

Who acts: Danes · What happens: alter, be, tell, not be · To what, where: Chest, language, us, nervous people · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (Danes), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 altered	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 altered	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 altered	aux:pass
4	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 horrid	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 horrid	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 horrid	cop
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 horrid	advmod
11	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 altered	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 language	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 language	det
14	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 horrid	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Danes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Danes	det
17	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 language	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tells	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 tells	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tells	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 tells	mark
22	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tells	nsubj
23	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 Danes	parataxis
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tells	iobj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 people	punct
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 people	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 people	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 people	det
29	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 people	amod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 timid	cc
31	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 nervous	conj
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 altered	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 altered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	alter	present · perfect · passive		Chest				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	is	present				the language of the Danes	horrid property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	the Danes		us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
4	not is a	past		a nervous people				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 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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