The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 53
‘Poetry is something that is in the papers, and that is frequently cut out.
Who acts: Poetry · What happens: be, cut out · To what, where: something, papers
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poetry), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
| 2 | Poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 papers | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 papers | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 papers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 papers | det |
| 9 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 something | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cut | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cut | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cut | aux:pass |
| 14 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 15 cut | advmod |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 something | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cut | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Poetry | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the papers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cut out | present · passive | frequently property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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