The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 37
The exact facts he can learn later, or he can leave them alone.
Who acts: exact facts, Joan · What happens: learn, leave · To what, where: facts
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 (exact facts, Joan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 facts | det |
| 2 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 facts | amod |
| 3 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 learn | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 learn | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 learn | aux |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 learn | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 leave | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | aux |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 learn | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | obj |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 leave | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | can | the exact facts | late property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | can | Joan | facts = fact | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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