The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 20
But, after all, we think more as we read them of the diversion than of the lesson.
Who acts: all, we · What happens: think, read · To what, where: more, tales · 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 (all, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 think | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 think | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 think | obj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 read | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 read | nsubj |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | ccomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 read | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 diversion | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 diversion | det |
| 15 | diversion | diversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | obl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 lesson | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 lesson | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lesson | det |
| 19 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 diversion | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | all | more | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent more=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | past | we | tales = tale | of the diversion than the lesson | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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