The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 8
However much these nations differ about trifles, they all agree in liking fairy tales.
Who acts: much nations, nations · What happens: differ, agree, like · To what, where: fairy 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 (much nations, nations), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nations | amod |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 nations | det |
| 4 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 differ | nsubj |
| 5 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 trifles | case |
| 7 | trifles | trifle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 differ | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 agree | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 agree | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 agree | nsubj |
| 11 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 differ | conj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 liking | mark |
| 13 | liking | like | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 agree | advcl |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tales | amod |
| 15 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 liking | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | present | this much nations | about trifles | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about trifle=Topic | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | present | nations = nation | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | like | gerund | nations = nation not said here | fairy tales | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme |
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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