The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 19
Here, then, are fancies brought from all quarters: we see that black, white, and yellow peoples are fond of just the same kinds of adventures.
Who acts: we, yellow peoples · What happens: be, bring, see · To what, where: fancies, quarters
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 (we, yellow peoples), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fancies | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fancies | cop |
| 6 | fancies | fancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fancies | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 quarters | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 quarters | det |
| 10 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fancies | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 black | mark |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 see | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 white | punct |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 black | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fond | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fond | cc |
| 20 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 peoples | amod |
| 21 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fond | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fond | cop |
| 23 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 see | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 kinds | case |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 kinds | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 kinds | det |
| 27 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 kinds | amod |
| 28 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fond | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 adventures | case |
| 30 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 kinds | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fancies | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | participle | fancies not said here | all quarters | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from quarter=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | yellow peoples | of the same kinds of adventures; fond 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 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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