The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 34

As to Giants, they have died out, but real Dwarfs are common in the forests of Africa.

Who acts: Fairies, real Dwarfs · What happens: die out, be · To what, where: forests

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 (Fairies, real Dwarfs), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 Giants	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 died	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Giants	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 died	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 died	aux
7	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 died	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 common	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 common	cc
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Dwarfs	amod
12	Dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 common	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 common	cop
14	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 died	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 forests	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forests	det
17	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 common	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Africa	case
19	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 forests	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	present · perfect	Fairies = fairy					as Giants	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	present	real Dwarfs			the forests of Africa		common property	tree rules

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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