The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 55
These words were read by one of the genii, who repeated them to his master.
Who acts: genii · What happens: read, repeat · To what, where: words, genii, master
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (genii), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 read | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux:pass |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 read | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 genii | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 genii | det |
| 9 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 repeated | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 repeated | nsubj |
| 12 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 genii | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 repeated | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 master | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 repeated | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past · passive | this words | by one of the genii | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | the genii | genii | word's master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to master=Recipient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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