The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 30
Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world?
Who acts: people · What happens: be, believe · To what, where: fairies, world
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 (people), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 8 fairies | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Again | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 are | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 are | expl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fairies | cop |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 fairies | advmod |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 fairies | det |
| 8 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 believe | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 believe | aux |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fairies | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 believe | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 world | punct |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 world | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 believe | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 fairies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | no fairies | again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe | present · do-support | people | the world | in Fairies = fairy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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