The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 39
They were translated by Miss Cheape, Miss Alma, and Miss Thyra Alleyne, Miss Sellar, Mr. Craigie (he did the Icelandic tales), Miss Blackley, Mrs. Dent, and Mrs. Lang, but the Red Indian stories are copied from English versions published by the Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology, in America.
Who acts: Miss, Mr. · What happens: translate, tale, copy, publish · To what, where: stories, Red Indian stories, English versions
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 (Miss, Mr.), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 translated | aux:pass |
| 3 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Miss | case |
| 5 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 translated | obl:agent |
| 6 | Cheape | Cheape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Miss | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Alma | punct |
| 8 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Alma | compound |
| 9 | Alma | Alma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Miss | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Dent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Dent | cc |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Dent | nsubj |
| 13 | Thyra | Thyra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Miss | flat |
| 14 | Alleyne | Alleyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Miss | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Miss | punct |
| 16 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Miss | conj |
| 17 | Sellar | Sellar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Miss | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Craigie | punct |
| 19 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Craigie | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Craigie | Craigie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Dent | nsubj |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 tales | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 tales | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 tales | aux |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tales | det |
| 25 | Icelandic | icelandic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tales | amod |
| 26 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Craigie | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 tales | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Miss | punct |
| 29 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Craigie | conj |
| 30 | Blackley | Blackley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Miss | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Mrs. | punct |
| 32 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Dent | compound |
| 33 | Dent | Dent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 translated | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Mrs. | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Mrs. | cc |
| 36 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 translated | obl:agent |
| 37 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Mrs. | flat |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 copied | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 copied | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 stories | det |
| 41 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 stories | flat |
| 42 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 stories | amod |
| 43 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 copied | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 copied | aux:pass |
| 45 | copied | copy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 translated | conj |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 versions | case |
| 47 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 versions | amod |
| 48 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 copied | obl |
| 49 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 versions | acl |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 53 Bureau | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Bureau | det |
| 52 | Smithsonian | Smithsonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Bureau | compound |
| 53 | Bureau | Bureau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 published | obl:agent |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 Ethnology | case |
| 55 | Ethnology | ethnology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 Bureau | nmod |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 America | punct |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 America | case |
| 58 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 copied | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | past · passive | Miss and Miss Alma | stories = story | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tale | past · do-support | Mr. | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | copy | present · passive | the Red Indian stories | English versions | in America | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in america=Destination | |||
| 4 | publish | participle | English versions not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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