The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 9
These stories are as old as anything that men have invented.
Who acts: stories, men · What happens: be, invent
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 (stories, men), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 old | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 old | advmod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 anything | case |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 old | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 invented | obj |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 invented | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 invented | aux |
| 11 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 anything | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this stories | as anything; old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invent | present · perfect | men | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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