The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 7

He is then obliged to explain that he has NOT written the Fairy Books, but, save these, has written almost everything else, except hymns, sermons, and dramatic works.

Who acts: Editor · What happens: oblige, explain, not write, save, write · To what, where: Editor, Fairy Books, these, everything · 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 obliged	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux:pass
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 obliged	advmod
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 explain	mark
6	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 written	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 written	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 written	aux
10	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 written	advmod
11	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 explain	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Books	det
13	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Books	compound
14	Books	Book	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 written	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 save	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 save	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 but	punct
18	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	advcl
19	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 save	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 written	punct
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 written	aux
22	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 obliged	conj
23	almost	almost	ADV	_	24 everything	advmod
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 written	obj
25	else	else	ADV	_	24 everything	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hymns	punct
27	except	except	ADP	_	28 hymns	case
28	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 written	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sermons	punct
30	sermons	sermon	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 hymns	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 works	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 works	cc
33	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 works	amod
34	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 obliged	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	present · passive		Editor	then	dramatic works obl	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not write	present · perfect	Editor	the Fairy Books			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme
4	save	infinitive		these			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
5	write	present · perfect		everything		except hymns and sermons	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme

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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