The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 27

The longest tales, like Heart of Ice, were not invented when the others were, but were written in French, by clever men and women, such as Madame d’Aulnoy, and the Count de Caylus, about two hundred years ago.

Who acts: clever men · What happens: not invent, write · To what, where: longest tales, others, French

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 (clever men), 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	3 tales	det
2	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 tales	amod
3	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 invented	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Heart	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Heart	case
6	Heart	Heart	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tales	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Ice	case
8	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Heart	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tales	punct
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 invented	aux:pass
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 invented	advmod
12	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 written	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 others	det
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 written	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 written	aux:pass
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 written	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 written	cc
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 written	aux:pass
20	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 invented	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 French	case
22	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 written	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 men	punct
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 men	case
25	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 men	amod
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 invented	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 women	cc
28	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 men	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 d’Aulnoy	punct
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	33 d’Aulnoy	case
31	as	as	ADP	_	30 such	fixed
32	Madame	Madame	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 d’Aulnoy	compound
33	d’Aulnoy	d'aulnoy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 men	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Caylus	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Caylus	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Caylus	det
37	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Caylus	compound
38	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Count	flat
39	Caylus	Caylus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 invented	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 ago	punct
41	about	about	ADV	_	43 hundred	advmod
42	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 hundred	compound
43	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 years	nummod
44	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 ago	obl:unmarked
45	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 invented	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 invented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not invent	past · passive	clever men and women and Madame d’Aulnoy	the longest tales like Heart of Ice				the Count Caylus obl; ago property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result
2	write	past · passive		the others		French			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in french=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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