English Fairy Tales, XXIV. Golden Arm., sentence 11
They know it is all make-believe just as much as the spectators of a tragedy.
Who acts: topics, dialogue · What happens: know, be, believe · To what, where: make · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Golden Arm.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (topics, dialogue), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 make | det |
| 6 | make | make | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | ccomp |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 believe | punct |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | parataxis |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 believe | ccomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 spectators | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spectators | det |
| 14 | spectators | spectator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 much | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tragedy | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tragedy | det |
| 17 | tragedy | tragedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spectators | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | topics = topic | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | dialogue | all make | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | believe | infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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