The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 27

Professor Huxley thinks there are none.

Who acts: Professor, none · What happens: think, be · 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 (Professor, none), 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	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thinks	nsubj
2	Huxley	Huxley	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Professor	flat
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thinks	ccomp
6	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 are	nsubj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Professor						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	present	none			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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