The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 42

This book he thinks quite indispensable in every child’s library, and parents should be urged to purchase it at the first opportunity, as without it no education is complete.

Who acts: book, education · What happens: think, urge, purchase, be · To what, where: parents, child, first opportunity

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 (book, education), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinks	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thinks	nsubj
4	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 indispensable	advmod
6	indispensable	indispensable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thinks	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 library	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 library	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 child	case
11	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 indispensable	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 urged	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 urged	cc
14	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 urged	nsubj:pass
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 urged	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 urged	aux:pass
17	urged	urge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thinks	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 purchase	mark
19	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 urged	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 purchase	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	24 opportunity	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 opportunity	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 opportunity	amod
24	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 purchase	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 complete	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 complete	mark
27	without	without	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 complete	obl
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 education	det
30	education	education	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 complete	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 complete	cop
32	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 purchase	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	this book			indispensable property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	urge	should · passive		parents			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	purchase not said to happen	to-infinitive		child	the first opportunity		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme
4	is	present	no education			without child; complete 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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