The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 12
In this way these tales are older than reading and writing, far older than printing.
Who acts: tales · What happens: be, print · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green 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 (tales), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 older | obl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 tales | det |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 older | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 older | cop |
| 7 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 reading | case |
| 9 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 older | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 writing | cc |
| 11 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reading | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 older | punct |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 older | advmod |
| 14 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 older | conj |
| 15 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 printing | mark |
| 16 | printing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 older | advcl | |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 older | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this tales | this way | than reading and writing; old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | this tales not said here | far property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gerund | this tales not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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