The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 25

But WE say that all the stories which are pleasant to read are quite true enough for us; so here they are, with pictures by Mr. Ford, and we do not think that either the pictures or the stories are likely to mislead children.

Who acts: WE, stories, pictures · What happens: say, be, read, not think, mislead · To what, where: children · 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 (WE, stories, pictures), 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	_	3 say	cc
2	WE	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 true	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 stories	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stories	det
7	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 true	nsubj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 pleasant	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 pleasant	cop
10	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stories	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 read	mark
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pleasant	xcomp
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 true	advmod
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	ccomp
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 true	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 us	case
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 true	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 here	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 here	advmod
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 say	parataxis
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 are	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 here	cop
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pictures	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 pictures	case
26	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 Ford	case
28	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Ford	nmod:desc
29	Ford	Ford	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 pictures	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 think	cc
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 think	nsubj
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 think	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 think	advmod
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	parataxis
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 likely	mark
37	either	either	CCONJ	_	39 pictures	cc:preconj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pictures	det
39	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 likely	nsubj
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 stories	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 stories	det
42	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 pictures	conj
43	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 likely	cop
44	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 think	ccomp
45	to	to	PART	_	46 mislead	mark
46	mislead	mislead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 likely	xcomp
47	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 mislead	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	WE		with pictures by Ford Mr.	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with picture=Manner
2	is	present	all stories		pleasant property	tree rules
3	read	to-infinitive	all stories not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	all stories		for us; enough, true property	tree rules
5	is	present			here property	tree rules
6	not think speech: other	present · do-support	we			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	the pictures or the stories		likely property	tree rules
8	mislead	to-infinitive	the pictures or the stories not said here	children		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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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