The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 26

Of the stories in this book, Miss Blackley translated ‘Dwarf Long Nose,’ ‘The Wonderful Beggars,’ ‘The Lute Player,’ ‘Two in a Sack,’ and ‘The Fish that swam in the Air.’

Who acts: Miss, Fish · What happens: translate, swim · To what, where: Dwarf Long Nose, Air

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 (Miss, Fish), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 stories	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stories	det
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 translated	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 book	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stories	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stories	punct
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 translated	nsubj
9	Blackley	Blackley	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Miss	flat
10	translated	translate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Nose	punct
12	Dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Nose	amod
13	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Nose	amod
14	Nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 translated	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 translated	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 translated	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Beggars	punct
18	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Beggars	det
19	Wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Beggars	amod
20	Beggars	Beggar	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 translated	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Beggars	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 Beggars	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Player	punct
24	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Player	det
25	Lute	Lute	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Player	compound
26	Player	Player	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Beggars	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ’	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 Player	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 Two	punct
30	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 Player	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 Sack	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 Sack	det
33	Sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Two	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Sack	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 Player	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Fish	cc
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 Fish	punct
38	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Fish	det
39	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Player	conj
40	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 swam	nsubj
41	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 Fish	acl:relcl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 Air	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Air	det
44	Air	Air	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 swam	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 Player	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 translated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	translate	past	Miss	Dwarf Long Nose				of the stories in this book	tree rules
2	swim	past	the Fish			the Air			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory

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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