The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 40

Mr. Ford did the pictures, and it is hoped that children will find the book not less pleasing than those which have already been submitted to their consideration.

Who acts: Ford, children, Books · What happens: do, hope, find, please, submit, consider · To what, where: pictures, Ethnology, book, consideration

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 (Ford, children, Books), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ford	nmod:desc
2	Ford	Ford	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pictures	det
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hoped	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hoped	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hoped	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hoped	aux:pass
10	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 find	mark
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 find	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hoped	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 book	det
16	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 less	advmod
18	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 pleasing	advmod
19	pleasing	please	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 find	advcl
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 those	case
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 pleasing	obl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 submitted	nsubj:pass
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 submitted	aux
24	already	already	ADV	_	26 submitted	advmod
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 submitted	aux:pass
26	submitted	submit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 those	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 consideration	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 consideration	nmod:poss
29	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 submitted	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ford Mr.	the pictures			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Eventuality
2	hope	present · passive		Ethnology			tree rules
3	find	future	children	the book			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
4	please	gerund	children not said here			than those; less property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	submit	present · perfect · passive			Books's consideration		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to consideration=Recipient
6	consider		Books = book				nom consideration «cognition transitive»: poss=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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