The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 15
Eve may have told these tales to amuse Cain and Abel.
Who acts: Eve, tales · What happens: tell, amuse · To what, where: tales, Cain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Eve, tales), 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 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 tales | det |
| 6 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 amuse | mark |
| 8 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 9 | Cain | Cain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 amuse | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Abel | cc |
| 11 | Abel | Abel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cain | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | may · perfect | Eve | this tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | amuse not said to happen | to-infinitive | this tales not said here | Cain and Abel | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cain=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/1/15/