The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 11

Now, there is one gentleman who seems to think that it is not quite right to print so many fairy tales, with pictures, and to publish them in red and blue covers.

Who acts: one gentleman, it · What happens: be, seem, think, not be, print, publish · To what, where: many fairy tales, tales, red covers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one gentleman, it), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 is	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 gentleman	nummod
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 seems	nsubj
8	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gentleman	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 think	mark
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seems	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 right	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 right	advmod
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 right	advmod
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 think	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 print	mark
18	print	print	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 right	csubj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tales	amod
21	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tales	amod
22	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 print	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pictures	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 pictures	case
25	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 print	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 publish	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 publish	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 publish	mark
29	publish	publish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 print	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 publish	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 covers	case
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 covers	amod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 blue	cc
34	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 red	conj
35	covers	cover	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 publish	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	one gentleman		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seem	present	one gentleman					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	one gentleman not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	it				right property	tree rules
5	print	to-infinitive		many fairy tales			with pictures	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
6	publish	to-infinitive		tales = tale	red covers			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result

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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