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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 8

A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book, if he examines and compares.

Who acts: child, Moses · What happens: read, find, examine, compare · To what, where: Blue Fairy Books, old friends, Pink Fairy Book

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 (child, Moses), 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

detnsubjnsubjauxacl:relcldetamodccconjccconjcompoundobjauxdetamodobjcaseamodnmodcasedetcompoundcompoundnmodpunctmarknsubjparataxisccconjpunctrootADETchildNOUNwhoPRONhasAUXreadVERBtheDETBlueADJandCCONJRedADJandCCONJYellowADJFairyNOUNBooksNOUNwillAUXfindVERBsomeDEToldADJfriendsNOUNwithADPnewADJfacesNOUNinADPtheDETPinkPROPNFairyPROPNBookPROPN,PUNCTifSCONJhePRONexaminesVERBandCCONJcomparesVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art2 childdet
2childchildNOUNNumber=Sing15 findnsubj
3whowhoPRONPronType=Rel5 readnsubj
4hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 readaux
5readreadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 childacl:relcl
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Booksdet
7BlueblueADJDegree=Pos13 Booksamod
8andandCCONJ_9 Redcc
9RedredADJDegree=Pos7 Blueconj
10andandCCONJ_11 Yellowcc
11YellowyellowADJDegree=Pos7 Blueconj
12FairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing13 Bookscompound
13BooksbookNOUNNumber=Plur5 readobj
14willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin15 findaux
15findfindVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
16somesomeDETPronType=Ind18 friendsdet
17oldoldADJDegree=Pos18 friendsamod
18friendsfriendNOUNNumber=Plur15 findobj
19withwithADP_21 facescase
20newnewADJDegree=Pos21 facesamod
21facesfaceNOUNNumber=Plur18 friendsnmod
22ininADP_26 Bookcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Bookdet
24PinkPinkPROPNNumber=Sing26 Bookcompound
25FairyFairyPROPNNumber=Sing26 Bookcompound
26BookBookPROPNNumber=Sing18 friendsnmod
27,,PUNCT_30 examinespunct
28ififSCONJ_30 examinesmark
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 examinesnsubj
30examinesexamineVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 findparataxis
31andandCCONJ_32 comparescc
32comparescompareVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin30 examinesconj
33..PUNCT_15 findpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1readpresent · perfecta childthe Blue Fairy Booksvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
2findfuturea childsome old friendsthe Pink Fairy Bookwith new facesvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic
3examine a condition, not said to happenpresentMosesvn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4comparepresentMoses not said herevn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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