The Yellow Fairy Book, Joan, Toddles, and Tiny, sentence 8
The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book.
Who acts: Editor, children · What happens: think, forgive, publish · To what, where: Editor, Fairy Book · 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 (Editor, children), 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 | 2 Editor | det |
| 2 | Editor | Editor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 forgive | mark |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 forgive | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 forgive | aux |
| 7 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 8 forgive | advmod |
| 8 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 forgive | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 publishing | mark |
| 11 | publishing | publish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 forgive | advcl |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 Book | det |
| 13 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Book | compound |
| 14 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 publishing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the Editor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | forgive | future | children | Editor | readily property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | publish | gerund | children not said here | another Fairy Book | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Result |
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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