The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 19
Then learned men collected and printed the country people’s stories, and these we have translated, to amuse children.
Who acts: men · What happens: learn, collect, print, translate, amuse · To what, where: stories, these, children · 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 (men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 learned | advmod |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 collected | nsubj |
| 4 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 learned | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 printed | cc |
| 6 | printed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 learned | conj | |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 people | compound |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stories | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 people | case |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 printed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 translated | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 translated | cc |
| 14 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 translated | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 translated | aux |
| 17 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 learned | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 amuse | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 amuse | mark |
| 20 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 translated | conj |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 amuse | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | then | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | collect | past | men | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | past | the country people's stories | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | translate | present · perfect · passive | these | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | amuse | to-infinitive | children | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=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.
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