The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 26
Some of the tales here, like The Half-Chick, are for very little children; others for older ones.
Who acts: tales · What happens: be
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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 tales | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 tales | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tales | det |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 children | nsubj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 tales | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Chick | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 Chick | case |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Chick | det |
| 9 | Half | Half | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chick | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Half | punct |
| 11 | Chick | Chick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tales | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tales | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 children | cop |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 children | case |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 little | advmod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 children | amod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 others | punct |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 children | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 ones | case |
| 21 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 ones | amod |
| 22 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 others | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 children | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some tales | for little children and others for older ones | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/1/26/