The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 10
They are narrated by naked savage women to naked savage children.
Who acts: naked savage women · What happens: narrate · To what, where: stories, naked savage children
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (naked savage women), 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 narrated | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 narrated | aux:pass |
| 3 | narrated | narrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 women | case |
| 5 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 women | amod |
| 6 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 women | compound |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 narrated | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 9 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 children | amod |
| 10 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 children | amod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 narrated | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 narrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | narrate speech: other | present · passive | naked savage women | stories = story | naked savage children | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Topic to child=Recipient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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