The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 5
The Editor takes this opportunity to repeat what he has often said before, that he is not the author of the stories in the Fairy Books; that he did not invent them ‘out of his own head.’
Who acts: Editor · What happens: take, repeat, say, not be, not invent · To what, where: opportunity, author, stories, own head · 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 (Editor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Editor | det |
| 2 | Editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 opportunity | det |
| 5 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 takes | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 repeat | mark |
| 7 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 opportunity | acl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 repeat | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | aux |
| 11 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 author | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 author | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 author | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 author | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 author | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 author | det |
| 20 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 repeat | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 stories | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stories | det |
| 23 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 author | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Books | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Books | det |
| 26 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Books | compound |
| 27 | Books | Book | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 stories | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 invent | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 invent | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 invent | nsubj |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 invent | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 invent | advmod |
| 33 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 takes | parataxis |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 invent | obj |
| 35 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 invent | punct |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 head | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 head | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 head | nmod:poss |
| 39 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 head | amod |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 invent | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | the Editor | this opportunity | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | to-infinitive | the Editor not said here | this opportunity | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | Editor | before, often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | Editor | the author | of the stories in the Fairy Books | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not invent | past · do-support | Editor | stories = story | Editor's own head | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |
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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