The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 17
Some of the stories were made, no doubt, not only to amuse, but to teach goodness.
What happens: make, not amuse, teach · To what, where: stories, goodness
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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 stories | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 doubt | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 doubt | det |
| 9 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 amuse | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 amuse | advmod |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 amuse | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 amuse | mark |
| 14 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 doubt | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 teach | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 teach | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 teach | mark |
| 18 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | parataxis |
| 19 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teach | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | some stories | no doubt obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | not amuse | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | goodness | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodness=Recipient |
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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