The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 14
Other fairy stories Homer knew, in Greece, nearly three thousand years ago, and he made them all up into a poem, the Odyssey, which I hope you will read some day.
Who acts: Other fairy stories, Homer, I, you · What happens: know, make, hope, read · To what, where: Greece, stories, poem, Odyssey · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Other fairy stories, Homer, I, you), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stories | compound |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | Homer | Homer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Greece | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Greece | case |
| 8 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 years | punct |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 thousand | advmod |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 thousand | compound |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 knew | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 up | advmod |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 made | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 poem | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 poem | det |
| 24 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Odyssey | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Odyssey | det |
| 27 | Odyssey | Odyssey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 poem | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hope | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 hope | obj |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 hope | nsubj |
| 31 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Odyssey | acl:relcl |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 read | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 read | aux |
| 34 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 hope | ccomp |
| 35 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 day | det |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 read | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Other fairy stories | Greece | ago property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer greece=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | past | Homer | stories = story | a poem | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into poem=Product | |||
| 3 | hope | present | I | the Odyssey | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | read | future | you | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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