The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 20
This is contained in very old tales, such as country people tell, and savages:
Who acts: people · What happens: contain, tell · To what, where: This, old tales, country · 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 (people), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 contained | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 contained | aux:pass |
| 3 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tales | case |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tales | amod |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 contained | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 country | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 11 country | case |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tales | appos |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 country | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 savages | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 savages | cc |
| 16 | savages | savage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 contained | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 contained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present · passive | This | old tales | savages obl | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in tale=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | people | country not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent country=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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