The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 36

There are some inventions called the Black Art!’

Who acts: inventions · What happens: be, call · To what, where: inventions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inventions), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 inventions	det
4	inventions	invention	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 inventions	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Art	det
7	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Art	amod
8	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	some inventions			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	participle		some inventions not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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