The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 35

Probably a good many stories not perfectly true have been told about fairies, but such stories have also been told about Napoleon, Claverhouse, Julius Caesar, and Joan of Arc, all of whom certainly existed.

Who acts: all · What happens: tell, exist · To what, where: good many stories, such stories · 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 (all), 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	Probably	probably	ADV	_	11 told	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stories	det
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	nsubj:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 true	advmod
7	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	8 true	advmod
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 told	aux:pass
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 fairies	case
13	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stories	amod
17	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 told	nsubj:pass
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 told	aux
19	also	also	ADV	_	21 told	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 told	aux:pass
21	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	conj
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 Napoleon	case
23	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 told	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Claverhouse	punct
25	Claverhouse	Claverhouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Napoleon	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Julius	punct
27	Julius	Julius	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Napoleon	conj
28	Caesar	Caesar	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Julius	flat
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Joan	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Joan	cc
31	Joan	Joan	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Napoleon	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Arc	case
33	Arc	Arc	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Joan	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 existed	punct
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 existed	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 whom	case
37	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 all	nmod
38	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	39 existed	advmod
39	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Napoleon	acl:relcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		a good many stories	about fairies; probably property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient about fairy=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		such stories	about Napoleon and Claverhouse and Julius and Joan of Arc	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient about napoleon=Topic
3	exist	past	all		certainly property	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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