The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 14
Who were the first authors of them nobody knows--probably the first men and women.
Who acts: nobody · What happens: be, know · To what, where: first authors
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 (nobody), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 authors | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 authors | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 authors | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 authors | amod |
| 5 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 authors | nmod |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 authors | acl:relcl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 men | punct |
| 11 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 14 men | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 authors | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 women | cc |
| 16 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 men | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 authors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the first authors and the first men and women | of tales = tale | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present | nobody | the first authors and the first men and women not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer author=Stimulus |
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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