The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 7
The stories in all the books are borrowed from many countries; some are French, some German, some Russian, some Italian, some Scottish, some English, one Chinese.
Who acts: some · What happens: borrow, be · To what, where: stories, many countries
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 (some), 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 | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 borrowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 books | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 books | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 books | det |
| 6 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stories | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 borrowed | aux:pass |
| 8 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 countries | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 countries | amod |
| 11 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 borrowed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 French | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 French | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 French | cop |
| 15 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 borrowed | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 German | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 German | det |
| 18 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 French | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Russian | punct |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 Russian | det |
| 21 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 French | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Italian | punct |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 Italian | det |
| 24 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 French | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Scottish | punct |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 Scottish | det |
| 27 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 French | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 English | punct |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 English | det |
| 30 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 borrowed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 one | punct |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 English | appos |
| 33 | Chinese | Chinese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 borrowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | present · passive | the stories in all books | many countries | some English obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from country=Source | |||
| 2 | is | present | some | french property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | some not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | some not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | some not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | be | some not said here | 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.
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