The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 13
The oldest fairy tales ever written down were written down in Egypt, about Joseph’s time, nearly three thousand five hundred years ago.
What happens: write down · To what, where: oldest fairy tales, Egypt
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: 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 | 4 tales | det |
| 2 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 tales | amod |
| 3 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tales | compound |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 written | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 written | advmod |
| 6 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tales | acl |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 written | compound:prt |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 written | aux:pass |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 written | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Egypt | case |
| 12 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 written | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | Joseph | Joseph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 time | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Joseph | case |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 written | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 three | punct |
| 19 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 20 three | advmod |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 thousand | compound |
| 21 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 five | compound |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 hundred | compound |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 written | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | participle | the oldest fairy tales not said here | ever | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | write down | past · passive | the oldest fairy tales | Egypt | time | ago property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in egypt=Destination |
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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