The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 33

For these reasons, the Editor thinks that there are certainly fairies, but they never do anyone any harm; and, in England, they have been frightened away by smoke and schoolmasters.

Who acts: Editor, fairies, smoke · What happens: think, be, not do, frighten away · To what, where: anyone, Fairies, England · 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 (Editor, fairies, smoke), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 reasons	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 reasons	det
3	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thinks	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reasons	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Editor	det
6	Editor	Editor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	nsubj
7	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 are	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thinks	ccomp
11	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	12 fairies	advmod
12	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 are	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 do	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 do	advmod
17	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thinks	conj
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 do	obj
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 harm	det
20	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 frightened	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 frightened	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 England	case
25	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 frightened	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 England	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 frightened	nsubj:pass
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 frightened	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 frightened	aux:pass
30	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 thinks	conj
31	away	away	ADP	_	30 frightened	compound:prt
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 smoke	case
33	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 frightened	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 schoolmasters	cc
35	schoolmasters	schoolmaster	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 smoke	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the Editor			for this reasons	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	does	present	fairies		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not do	present	Fairies = fairy	anyone			tree rules
4	frighten away	present · perfect · passive	smoke and schoolmasters	Fairies = fairy	England		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=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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