The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 23
But, in the Yellow Fairy Book, and the rest, are many tales by persons who are neither savages nor rustics, such as Madame D’Aulnoy and Herr Hans Christian Andersen.
Who acts: rest, persons · What happens: be · To what, where: many tales, neither savages
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 (rest, persons), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 Book | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Book | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Book | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Book | det |
| 5 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Book | amod |
| 6 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Book | compound |
| 7 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tales | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tales | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rest | det |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tales | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rest | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tales | cop |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tales | amod |
| 15 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Book | appos |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 persons | case |
| 17 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tales | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 savages | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 savages | cop |
| 20 | neither | neith | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 savages | amod |
| 21 | savages | savage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 persons | nmod |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 rustics | cc |
| 23 | rustics | rustic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 savages | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 D’Aulnoy | punct |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 28 D’Aulnoy | case |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 such | fixed |
| 27 | Madame | Madame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 D’Aulnoy | flat |
| 28 | D’Aulnoy | D'Aulnoy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 savages | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Herr | cc |
| 30 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 D’Aulnoy | conj |
| 31 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Andersen | compound |
| 32 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | _ | 33 Andersen | flat |
| 33 | Andersen | Andersen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 D’Aulnoy | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Book | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the rest | many tales | by persons | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | persons | neither savages nor rustics | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/2/23/