The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 24
The Folk Lore Society, or its president, say that THEIR tales are not so true as the rest, and should not be published with the rest.
Who acts: Lore Society, tales, rustics · What happens: say, not be, not publish, tell · 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 (Lore Society, tales, rustics), 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 | 4 Society | det |
| 2 | Folk | Folk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lore | compound |
| 3 | Lore | Lore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Society | compound |
| 4 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 say | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 president | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 president | cc |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 president | nmod:poss |
| 8 | president | president | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Society | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Society | punct |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 true | mark |
| 12 | THEIR | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 tales | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 true | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 true | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 true | advmod |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 true | advmod |
| 17 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 say | ccomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 rest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rest | det |
| 20 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 true | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 published | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 published | cc |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 published | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 published | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 published | aux:pass |
| 26 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 say | ccomp |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 rest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rest | det |
| 29 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 published | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the Lore Society | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | rustics's tales | as the rest; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not publish | should · passive | with the rest | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | tell | rustics = rustic | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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