The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 13

Once a year he makes his address to his subjects, of whom the Editor is one, and Mr. Joseph Jacobs (who has published many delightful fairy tales with pretty pictures)(1) is another.

Who acts: gentleman, Editor, Joseph · What happens: make, be, publish, address · To what, where: address, one, many delightful fairy tales

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 (gentleman, Editor, Joseph), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 makes	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 address	nmod:poss
7	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 subjects	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 subjects	nmod:poss
10	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 makes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whom	punct
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 makes	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Editor	det
15	Editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 one	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 one	cop
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 whom	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 published	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 published	cc
20	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Joseph	nmod:desc
21	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 published	nsubj
22	Jacobs	Jacobs	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Joseph	flat
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 published	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 published	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 published	aux
26	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 makes	parataxis
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tales	amod
28	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tales	amod
29	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tales	compound
30	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 published	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 pictures	case
32	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 pictures	amod
33	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tales	nmod
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	33 pictures	punct
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 1	punct
36	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 pictures	appos
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	36 1	punct
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 another	cop
39	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 published	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	gentleman	gentleman's address	to gentleman's subjects; once property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset address=Beneficiary whom=Product
2	is a	present	the Editor	one		tree rules
3	publish	present · perfect	Joseph Mr.	many delightful fairy tales	with pretty pictures	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Result
4	address		gentleman			nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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