The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 29
Some of the most interesting are from the Roumanion, and three were previously published in the late Dr. Steere’s ‘Swahili Tales.’
Who acts: Some, Roumanion, late Steere · What happens: be, publish, tell · To what, where: Roumanion, three, Swahili Tales · 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 (Some, Roumanion, late Steere), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 Roumanion | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 interesting | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 interesting | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 interesting | advmod |
| 5 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Some | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Roumanion | cop |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Roumanion | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Roumanion | det |
| 9 | Roumanion | Roumanion | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 published | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 published | cc |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 published | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 published | aux:pass |
| 14 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 15 published | advmod |
| 15 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Roumanion | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 Tales | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Steere | det |
| 18 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Steere | amod |
| 19 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Steere | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Steere | Steere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Steere | case |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Tales | punct |
| 23 | Swahili | swahili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Tales | compound |
| 24 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 published | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Roumanion | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Roumanion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Some | the Roumanion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | publish | past · passive | the Roumanion not said here | three | the late Steere Dr.'s Swahili Tales | previously property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||
| 3 | tell | the late Steere Dr. | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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