The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 7

The Germans, French, Spanish, Italians, Danes, Highlanders tell them also, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere.

Who acts: Germans, stories · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: Highlanders · 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 (Germans, stories), 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 Germans	det
2	Germans	German	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 tell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 French	punct
4	French	French	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Germans	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Spanish	punct
6	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 French	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Italians	punct
8	Italians	Italian	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Germans	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Danes	punct
10	Danes	Dane	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Germans	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Germans	punct
12	Highlanders	highlander	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	also	also	ADV	_	13 tell	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 apt	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 apt	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stories	det
19	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 apt	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 apt	cop
21	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tell	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	25 each	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 each	cop
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 each	case
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 apt	appos
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 each	fixed
27	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 each	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Germans and Italians and Danes		Highlanders = highlander				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	present	the stories					apt 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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