The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 30
By the permission of his representatives these three African stories have here been abridged and simplified for children.
Who acts: these, permission · What happens: story, abridge, simplify, permit · To what, where: representatives
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 (these, permission), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 permission | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 permission | det |
| 3 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 abridged | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 representatives | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 representatives | nmod:poss |
| 6 | representatives | representative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 permission | nmod |
| 7 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 stories | nsubj |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 stories | nummod |
| 9 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stories | amod |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 representatives | nmod |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 abridged | aux |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 abridged | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 abridged | aux:pass |
| 14 | abridged | abridge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 simplified | cc |
| 16 | simplified | simplify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 abridged | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 simplified | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 abridged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | story | these | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | abridge | present · perfect · passive | the permission of three's representatives | here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | simplify | participle | the permission of three's representatives not said here | for children | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | permit | three's representatives | nom permission «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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