The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 28

There are not many people now, perhaps there are none, who can write really good fairy tales, because they do not believe enough in their own stories, and because they want to be wittier than it has pleased Heaven to make them.

Who acts: many people, none, tales, Caylus, pleased Heaven · What happens: be, write, not believe, want, have, make · To what, where: good fairy tales, enough, own stories, pleased Heaven, tales

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 (many people, none, tales, Caylus), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 are	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	10 are	advmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	conj
11	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	10 are	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 write	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 write	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 write	aux
15	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 none	parataxis
16	really	really	ADV	_	17 good	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tales	amod
18	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tales	compound
19	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 write	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 believe	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 believe	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 believe	nsubj
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 believe	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 believe	advmod
25	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 write	conj
26	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 believe	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 stories	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 stories	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stories	amod
30	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 enough	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wittier	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wittier	cc
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	35 want	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 want	nsubj
35	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 wittier	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	38 wittier	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 wittier	cop
38	wittier	witty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 enough	conj
39	than	than	SCONJ	_	41 has	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 has	nsubj
41	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 wittier	advcl
42	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Heaven	amod
43	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 has	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 make	mark
45	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 has	xcomp
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 make	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	many people		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	none		there		perhaps property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	write	can		good fairy tales				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
4	not believe	present · do-support	tales = tale	enough	tales's own stories			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus
5	want	present	tales = tale					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is	to-infinitive	tales = tale not said here				witty property	tree rules
7	have	present	Caylus	pleased Heaven				tree rules
8	make	to-infinitive	pleased Heaven not said here	tales = tale				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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