The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 5

The Japanese tell them, the Chinese, the Red Indians by their camp fires, the Eskimo in their dark dirty winter huts.

Who acts: Japanese, tales · What happens: tell, fire · To what, where: Red Indians, tales · 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 (Japanese, tales), 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	2 Japanese	det
2	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Chinese	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Chinese	det
7	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Indians	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Indians	det
10	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Indians	compound
11	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 fires	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fires	nmod:poss
14	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fires	compound
15	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 Indians	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Eskimo	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Eskimo	det
18	Eskimo	Eskimo	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fires	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 huts	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 huts	nmod:poss
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 huts	amod
22	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 huts	amod
23	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 huts	compound
24	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Eskimo	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Japanese	the Red Indians by tales's camp fires the Eskimo in tales's dark dirty winter huts	tales = tale				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	fire		tales = tale						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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