The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 22
These people are thought to know most about fairyland and its inhabitants.
What happens: think, know · To what, where: people
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: 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux:pass |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | xcomp |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 know | advmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 fairyland | case |
| 9 | fairyland | fairyland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 inhabitants | cc |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 12 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fairyland | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · passive | this people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | about fairyland and Crow's inhabitants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about fairyland=Stimulus |
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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