English Fairy Tales, _to My Dear Little May_, sentence 46
This book is meant to be read aloud, and not merely taken in by the eye.
What happens: mean, read, not take in · To what, where: book
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 meant | aux:pass |
| 4 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 read | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 read | aux:pass |
| 7 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 meant | advcl |
| 8 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 7 read | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 taken | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 taken | advmod |
| 12 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 13 taken | advmod |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 meant | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 taken | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 eye | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eye | det |
| 17 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · passive | this book | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive · passive | aloud property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | not take in | participle | by the eye; merely property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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