The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 12
The stories are full of the oldest ideas of ages when science did not exist, and magic took the place of science.
Who acts: stories, science, magic · What happens: be, not exist, take · To what, where: place
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 (stories, science, magic), 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 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ideas | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ideas | det |
| 7 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 ideas | amod |
| 8 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ages | case |
| 10 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ideas | nmod |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 exist | mark |
| 12 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exist | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 exist | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 exist | advmod |
| 15 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ages | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 18 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 science | case |
| 23 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the stories | of the oldest ideas of ages; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not exist | past · do-support | science | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | magic | the place of science | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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