The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 19
The truth is that the Folk Lore Society--made up of the most clever, learned, and beautiful men and women of the country--is fond of studying the history and geography of Fairy Land.
Who acts: truth, beautiful men · What happens: be, make up, learn, study · To what, where: Lore Society, history · 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 (truth, beautiful men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Society | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Society | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 Society | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Society | det |
| 6 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lore | compound |
| 7 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Society | compound |
| 8 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Society | acl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 made | compound:prt |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 clever | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clever | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 clever | advmod |
| 15 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 made | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 learned | punct |
| 17 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Society | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fond | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fond | cc |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fond | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 women | cc |
| 23 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 men | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 women | nmod |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 men | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 fond | cop |
| 29 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 learned | ccomp |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 studying | mark |
| 31 | studying | study | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 fond | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 history | det |
| 33 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 studying | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 geography | cc |
| 35 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 history | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Fairy | case |
| 37 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 geography | nmod |
| 38 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Fairy | flat |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Society | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | the Lore Society | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make up | participle | the Lore Society not said here | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn | past | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | beautiful men and women of the country | fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | study | gerund | beautiful men and women of the country not said here | the history and geography of Fairy | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Topic |
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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